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.	If   the
     'OMP_NUM_THREADS' or 'OMP_THREAD_LIMIT' environment variables are set, then
     they will determine the minimum and maximum returned value respectively.

     --all  print  the	number	of installed processors, disregarding any OpenMP
	    environment variables, or CPU quotas.

     --ignore=N
	    if possible, exclude N processing units.  The result  is  guaranteed
	    to be at least 1.

     --help
	    display this help and exit

     --version
	    output version information and exit

AUTHOR
     Written by Giuseppe Scrivano.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
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COPYRIGHT
     Copyright	(C) 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.	 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL
     version 3 or later <https://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 <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nproc>
     or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nproc invocation'

GNU coreutils 9.11		   April 2026				NPROC(1)