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: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report nproc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 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.  

Willie has over 15 years of experience in Linux system administration and DevOps. After managing infrastructure for startups and enterprises alike, he founded Command Linux to share the practical knowledge he wished he had when starting out. He oversees content strategy and contributes guides on server management, automation, and security.