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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
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report nproc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 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
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nproc> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nproc invocation' GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 NPROC(1)

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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)
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