#
  # a single fact
  #

  - name: define the amount of cores on bsd systems
    ansible.builtin.shell:
      executable: /bin/sh
      cmd: "dmesg | grep ^cpu | wc -l"
    register: bsdcores
    check_mode: false
    changed_when: false
    when: system == 'freebsd'

  - name: define the amount of cores
    ansible.builtin.shell:
      executable: /bin/bash
      cmd: "echo $(( `grep ^processor /proc/cpuinfo | tail -1 | cut -f2 -d:` + 1 ))"
    register: linuxcores
    check_mode: false
    changed_when: false
    when: system != 'freebsd'

  - name: define cores variable
    set_fact:
      cores: "{{ (bsdcores.stdout | trim) if system == 'freebsd' | default(linuxcores.stdout) }}"

  - name: show cores variable
    debug: msg={{cores}}