Shell script

Quality:

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 62^nd most popular software in Portuguese Wikipedia and the 21^st most popular programming language in Portuguese Wikipedia. Article "Shell script" in Portuguese Wikipedia has 27.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 19 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Portuguese Wikipedia:

The 62^nd most popular in software in Portuguese Wikipedia.

The 21^st most popular in programming languages in Portuguese Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 189^th most popular in software.

The 67^th most popular in programming languages.

Since the creation of article "Shell script", its content was written by 55 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 430 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shell script is on the 62^nd place in local ranking of software in Portuguese Wikipedia and on the 189^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

Shell script is on the 21^st place in local ranking of programming languages in Portuguese Wikipedia and on the 67^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 233 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 1418 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #594 in September 2005
• Global: #4569 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #6694 in June 2008
• 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

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

#	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

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

#	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

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

#	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

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

#	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

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

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