Shell script

Shell script - script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system. This software is the 189^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 141^st most popular software in English Wikipedia and the 48^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Shell script" in English Wikipedia has 43.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 22 references and 16 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Shell script" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Shell script", its content was written by 219 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 430 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shell script is on the 141^st place in local ranking of software in English Wikipedia and on the 189^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Shell script is on the 48^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 67^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 339 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1418 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1736 in November 2002
• Global: #4569 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #24926 in July 2013
• Global: #38050 in June 2008

There are 19 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, 2025 (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) Shell script		43.7893
2	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		36.6925
3	German (de) Shellskript		34.7379
4	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		27.8668
5	Vietnamese (vi) Câu lệnh shell		24.726
6	Norwegian (no) Skallskript		18.0442
7	Korean (ko) 셸 스크립트		16.7786
8	Spanish (es) Script de shell		13.9251
9	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		11.9123
10	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		10.7214

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Shell script" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shell script		4 148 165
2	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		496 973
3	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		399 050
4	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		95 925
5	German (de) Shellskript		82 766
6	Chinese (zh) 外壳脚本		61 644
7	Korean (ko) 셸 스크립트		53 524
8	French (fr) Script shell		45 053
9	Arabic (ar) إخطاط واجهة الأوامر		38 884
10	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		38 062

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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 "Shell script" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shell script		7 070
2	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		751
3	German (de) Shellskript		440
4	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		397
5	Chinese (zh) 外壳脚本		309
6	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		210
7	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		201
8	French (fr) Script shell		189
9	Spanish (es) Script de shell		178
10	Arabic (ar) إخطاط واجهة الأوامر		93

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shell script		219
2	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		55
3	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		23
4	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		19
5	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		15
6	German (de) Shellskript		14
7	Arabic (ar) إخطاط واجهة الأوامر		10
8	Dutch (nl) Shellscript		10
9	Russian (ru) Сценарий командной строки		9
10	Vietnamese (vi) Câu lệnh shell		9

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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 "Shell script" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		6
2	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		1
3	English (en) Shell script		1
4	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		1
5	Arabic (ar) إخطاط واجهة الأوامر		0
6	Catalan (ca) Shell script		0
7	German (de) Shellskript		0
8	Spanish (es) Script de shell		0
9	Persian (fa) شل اسکریپت		0
10	Finnish (fi) Shell-skripti		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 "Shell script" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shell script		339
2	Turkish (tr) Kabuk programlama		263
3	Portuguese (pt) Shell script		233
4	Japanese (ja) シェルスクリプト		111
5	Korean (ko) 셸 스크립트		100
6	German (de) Shellskript		90
7	French (fr) Script shell		49
8	Chinese (zh) 外壳脚本		46
9	Czech (cs) Shellový skript		44
10	Arabic (ar) إخطاط واجهة الأوامر		36

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إخطاط واجهة الأوامر
ca	Catalan Shell script
cs	Czech Shellový skript
de	German Shellskript
en	English Shell script
es	Spanish Script de shell
fa	Persian شل اسکریپت
fi	Finnish Shell-skripti
fr	French Script shell
gl	Galician Shell script
ja	Japanese シェルスクリプト
ko	Korean 셸 스크립트
nl	Dutch Shellscript
no	Norwegian Skallskript
pt	Portuguese Shell script
ru	Russian Сценарий командной строки
tr	Turkish Kabuk programlama
vi	Vietnamese Câu lệnh shell
zh	Chinese 外壳脚本

Best Rank

English: #24926 07.2013

Global: #38050 06.2008

Best Rank

English: #1736 11.2002

Global: #4569 11.2002

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