nproc

Examples (TL;DR)

• Display the number of available processing units: nproc
• Display the number of installed processing units, including any inactive ones: nproc --all
• If possible, subtract a given number of units from the returned value: nproc --ignore count

tldr.sh

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

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Copyright

Copyright © 2019 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'

Referenced By

dkms(8), get_nprocs_conf(3), sched_setaffinity(2).