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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

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

AUTHOR

Written by Giuseppe Scrivano.

REPORTING BUGS

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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'

January 2024 GNU coreutils 8.32