nproc (1) - Linux Manuals

nproc: print the number of processing units available

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.

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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

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