Re: Question on /proc/cpuinfo

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Friday 2012-09-14 14:30, Cong Wang wrote:
> On 09/14/2012 07:18 AM, JA MagallÃn wrote:
>> Hi...
>>
>> Probably it is a stupid question, but... I wan to count the number of
>> processors, cores and threads on a linux system. I do it by reading
>> /proc/cpuinfo.
>
> Probably lscpu(1) is better for you, on my laptop it outputs:

Programmatically (for scripts), you want to count the number
of /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]*. Grepping around output
meant for humans (cpuinfo, lscpu) is always a bad idea.
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