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
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AUTHOR
Written by Giuseppe Scrivano.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2013 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 per‐
mitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for nproc is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and nproc programs are prop‐
erly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'nproc invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 November 2016 NPROC(1)
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