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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
--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
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/core‐
utils/>
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ject.org/team/>
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'
GNU coreutils 8.32 April 2020 NPROC(1)