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
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COPYRIGHT
     Copyright c 2010 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  redistri-
     bute  it.   There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
     law.

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.




GNU coreutils 8.5    Last change: April 2010                    1