NPROC
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2011
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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
GNU coreutils home page: <
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <
http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
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.shtml>.
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.
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