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+#!/bin/sh -e
+#
+#    cpu-count: count cpu's on a systems
+#    Copyright (C) 2008 Canonical Ltd.
+#
+#    Authors: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
+#
+#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#    the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.
+#
+#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#    GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Default is "on"
+p=`basename $0`
+grep -qs "^$p=0$" "$HOME/.screen-profiles/status" && exit 0
+
+count=`grep -c "^processor.*:" /proc/cpuinfo`
+[ "$count" = "1" ] || echo $count"x"