# Environment variable for julia --procs

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**Created:** [November 18, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/environment-variable-for-julia-procs/50356 "2020-11-18T05:12:16Z")\
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For `--threads` there is `JULIA_NUM_THREADS`. Is there an environment variable for `--procs`?