NAME

nproc — print the number of processors

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

By default nproc prints the number of currently available processors to run processes. This may be lower than the number of processors which can be made available, which you can see via the -a option.

EXIT STATUS

The nproc utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

sysconf(3)

HISTORY

A nproc utility first appeared in FreeBSD 13.2 and GNU Coreutils 8.1 (2009-11-18).

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>