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) 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 redistribute 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						   February 2011							  NPROC(1)