Question

I’ve put together a batch script to generate panoramas using the command line tools used by Hugin. One interesting thing about several of those tools is they allow multi-core usage, but this option has to be flagged within the command.

What I’ve come up with so far:

#get the last fields of each line in the file, initialize the line counter
results=$(more /proc/cpuinfo | awk '{print ($NF)}')
count=0

#loop through the results till the 12th line for cpu core count
for result in $results; do
  if [ $count == 12 ]; then
    echo "Core Count: $result"
  fi
  count=$((count+1))
done

Is there a simpler way to do this?

Answer 1

result=$(awk 'NR==12{print $NF}' /proc/cpuinfo)