Manual: gnunproc
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.
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SEE ALSO
Full documentation
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nproc invocation'
Packaged by Ubuntu (9.7-3ubuntu2)
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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.
GNU coreutils 9.7 January 2026 NPROC(1)