nproc

(1)

print the number of processing units available

User commands 4 optionscoreutils 9.7-3

nproc [OPTION]...

Options

4

--all

print the number of installed processors

--ignoreN

if possible, exclude N processing units

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

DESCRIPTION

Print the number of processing units available to the current process, which may be less than the number of online processors

--all: print the number of installed processors
--ignore=N: if possible, exclude N processing units
--help: display this help and exit
--version: output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by Giuseppe Scrivano.

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SEE ALSO

Full documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nproc
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nproc invocation'

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