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nproc (1)

Name

nproc - print the number of processing units available

Synopsis

nproc [OPTION]...

Description

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
       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 (C) 2012 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.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+--------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE   |
       +---------------+--------------------+
       |Availability   | file/gnu-coreutils |
       +---------------+--------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted        |
       +---------------+--------------------+
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.



NOTES
       This    software    was    built    from    source     available     at
       https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.    The  original  community
       source  was  downloaded  from    http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/core-
       utils-8.16.tar.xz

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/.



GNU coreutils 8.16                March 2012                          NPROC(1)