NAME¶

nproc - Print the number of cores available to the current process. If the OMP_NUM_THREADS or OMP_THREAD_LIMIT environment variables are set, then they will determine the minimum and maximum returned value respectively.

SYNOPSIS¶

nproc [--all] [--ignore] [-h|--help] [-V|--version]

DESCRIPTION¶

Print the number of cores available to the current process. If the OMP_NUM_THREADS or OMP_THREAD_LIMIT environment variables are set, then they will determine the minimum and maximum returned value respectively.

OPTIONS¶

--all

print the number of cores available to the system

--ignore <N>

ignore up to N cores

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

EXAMPLES¶

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

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.