# of processors

[J. Hughes]

This should do the job:

cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep ^processor | wc -l

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Scholz Matthew wrote:

> Let us just say that I need to know how many
> processors a linux machine has using.  Let us also say
> that I'm not sure exactly how to retrieve said
> information.
>
> Let us add for the sake of argument, that I would like
> a single command line argument which returns some
> useful sembalance of aforementioned processorial
> quantity.
>
> Is there such a beast?
>
> Thanx
>
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