nproc(1) - Linux man page

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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Copyright

Copyright © 2010 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 aqnproc invocationaq

should give you access to the complete manual.