Shell Programming and Scripting

 
# print_manifest | grep "logical processors"
        8 cores, 16 logical processors per socket
               2 logical processors (2 per socket)

print_manifest | perl -nle '/(\d+) logical processors/&&print $1'

awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) {if($i=="logical") print $(i-1)}}' file_name

16
2

print_manifest | perl -nle '/(\d+) logical processors/&&($x=$1);END{print $x}'

 
# print_manifest | awk '/[[:digit:]]+/ && /core|cores/ { print "core:"$1 }' | tail -1
core:1

$ cat file
System Hardware
    Model:              ia64 hp Integrity Virtual Partition
    Main Memory:        6137 MB
    Processors:         2
        Intel(R)  Itanium(R)  Processor 9560 (2.53 GHz, 32 MB)
        8 cores, 16 logical processors per socket
        6.38 GT/s QPI, CPU version D0
               Active processor count:
               1 socket
               1 core
               2 logical processors (2 per socket)
               LCPU attribute is enabled  

$ awk '/core|cores/ && ++i>1{print "core:"$1;exit}' file
core:1

$ print_manifest | awk '/core|cores/ && ++i>1{print "core:"$1;exit}'