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/usr/bin/nproc

Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils.

From uutils 0.12.0-r6 (os), captured 2026-11-07 by running nproc --help (exit 0). permalink

Print the number of cores available to the current process.
If the OMP_NUM_THREADS or OMP_THREAD_LIMIT environment variables are set, then
they will determine the minimum and maximum returned value respectively.

Usage: nproc [OPTIONS]...

Options:
      --all         print the number of cores available to the system
      --ignore <N>  ignore up to N cores [default: 0]
  -h, --help        Print help
  -V, --version     Print version
Options (4)
OptionDescriptionSource
--allprint the number of cores available to the systemhelp + man
--ignore Nignore up to N cores [default: 0]help
-h, --helpPrint helphelp + man
-V, --versionPrint versionhelp + man

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.