Re: Script for compiling more quietly

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Absurdly enough, nproc doesn't have an option for "just say how many
> cores there are, OK?"  But I guess one could parse /proc/cpuinfo to try
> to figure that out.

But this is now easier than it was in The Olden Days, when you had to
look at sibling IDs and the like.  The following will tell you the
number of cores:

grep "^cpu cores" /proc/cpuinfo | tail -n 1 |  awk '{print $4}' 
8

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