This appears to do the same. Utility is verified to be present on Ubuntu and OpenSuse out-of-the-box. Show Sample Output
/proc/cpuinfo contains information about the CPU. Search for "processor" in the /proc/cpuinfo file wc -l, counts the number of lines. Show Sample Output
this works for a Linux based system, other UNIX systems may have other way(s) to check the number of CPUs.
All Linux Systems I try also have an empty line per cpu in /proc/cpuinfo... little shorter then... Show Sample Output
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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