Bourne shell

Bourne shell - command line interpreter for operating systems. This software is the 377^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 258^th most popular software in Swedish Wikipedia and the 84^th most popular programming language in Swedish Wikipedia. Article “Bourne shell” in Swedish Wikipedia has 0.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.01 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Swedish) language version.

Since the creation of article “Bourne shell”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Swedish Wikipedia and edited by 550 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Bourne shell is on the 258^th place in local ranking of software in Swedish Wikipedia and on the 377^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Bourne shell is on the 84^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Swedish Wikipedia and on the 104^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 14 times in Swedish Wikipedia and cited 1355 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Swedish): #16972 in August 2020
• Global: #3083 in April 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Swedish): #73533 in December 2009
• Global: #69734 in July 2009

There are 26 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Bourne shell		44.4645
2	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		34.2346
3	Finnish (fi) Bourne shell		28.9746
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Bourne Shell		27.731
5	Catalan (ca) Bourne shell		25.2865
6	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		17.1688
7	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		15.6093
8	Italian (it) Bourne shell		15.3221
9	Greek (el) Κέλυφος Bourne		12.7902
10	French (fr) Bourne shell		10.7661

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bourne shell" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bourne shell		1 874 513
2	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		225 485
3	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		222 340
4	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		137 212
5	French (fr) Bourne shell		116 806
6	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		64 427
7	Chinese (zh) Bourne shell		53 319
8	Italian (it) Bourne shell		42 459
9	Portuguese (pt) Bourne shell		29 816
10	Korean (ko) 본 셸		26 754

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bourne shell" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bourne shell		7 369
2	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		293
3	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		281
4	Chinese (zh) Bourne shell		274
5	French (fr) Bourne shell		174
6	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		112
7	Italian (it) Bourne shell		82
8	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		77
9	Portuguese (pt) Bourne shell		55
10	Norwegian (no) Bourne Shell		47

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Bourne shell" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bourne shell		169
2	French (fr) Bourne shell		43
3	Italian (it) Bourne shell		39
4	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		37
5	Polish (pl) Powłoka Bourne’a		32
6	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		29
7	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		27
8	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		21
9	Esperanto (eo) Sh (ŝelo)		21
10	Norwegian (no) Bourne Shell		14

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Bourne shell" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bourne shell		2
2	Azerbaijani (az) Bourne shell		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Bourne shell		0
4	Catalan (ca) Bourne shell		0
5	Czech (cs) Bourne shell		0
6	Danish (da) Bourne shell		0
7	Greek (el) Κέλυφος Bourne		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Sh (ŝelo)		0
9	Spanish (es) Bourne Shell		0
10	Persian (fa) Bourne shell		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Bourne shell" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) Bourne shell		229
2	Norwegian (no) Bourne Shell		163
3	English (en) Bourne shell		156
4	Russian (ru) Bourne shell		116
5	Italian (it) Bourne shell		107
6	Ukrainian (uk) Оболонка Борна		71
7	Japanese (ja) Bourne Shell		66
8	French (fr) Bourne shell		57
9	Slovak (sk) Bourne shell		53
10	Korean (ko) 본 셸		49

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#	Language	Value
az	Azerbaijani Bourne shell
bg	Bulgarian Bourne shell
ca	Catalan Bourne shell
cs	Czech Bourne shell
da	Danish Bourne shell
el	Greek Κέλυφος Bourne
en	English Bourne shell
eo	Esperanto Sh (ŝelo)
es	Spanish Bourne Shell
fa	Persian Bourne shell
fi	Finnish Bourne shell
fr	French Bourne shell
he	Hebrew Bourne Shell
it	Italian Bourne shell
ja	Japanese Bourne Shell
ko	Korean 본 셸
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Bourne Shell
no	Norwegian Bourne Shell
pl	Polish Powłoka Bourne’a
pt	Portuguese Bourne shell
ru	Russian Bourne shell
sk	Slovak Bourne shell
sv	Swedish Bourne shell
th	Thai บอร์นเชลล์
uk	Ukrainian Оболонка Борна
zh	Chinese Bourne shell

Best Rank

Swedish: #73533 12.2009

Global: #69734 07.2009

Best Rank

Swedish: #16972 08.2020

Global: #3083 04.2002

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