How to obtain the number of CPUs/cores in Linux from the command line?

by 
grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo

will count the number of lines starting with “processor” in /proc/cpuinfo

For systems with hyper-threading, you can use

grep ^cpu\\scores /proc/cpuinfo | uniq |  awk '{print $4}'

which should return (for example) 8 (whereas the command above would return 16)

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