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: Report any translation bugs to COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . 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 or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nproc invocation' GNU coreutils 9.5 March 2024 NPROC(1)