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NPROC(1) User Commands NPROC(1)

NAME

nproc - print the number of processing units available

SYNOPSIS

nproc [ OPTION]...

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.

REPORTING BUGS

Report nproc bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
 
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Report nproc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
 
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for nproc is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and nproc programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'nproc invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
September 2011 GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb