Marco Ippolito <maroloccio@gmail.com> wrote: > How can I `echo', in `bash', the core # the current script is running on? This will probably do it for you awk '{print $39}' /proc/$$/stat See proc(5) for details, including the 39. Please also note that unless you've set the task affinity (see taskset(1) for details) the process can - and will - be reassigned different cores during its lifetime. Chris