Name
nice — run a program with modified scheduling priority
Synopsis
nice [OPTION] [ COMMAND [ARG...] ]
DESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND with an adjusted niceness, which affects process scheduling. With no COMMAND, print the current niceness. Niceness values range from −20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process).
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
−n,−−adjustment=N-
add integer N to the niceness (default 10)
−−help-
display this help and exit
−−version-
output version information and exit
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Your shell may have its own version of nice, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports. |
REPORTING BUGS
Report nice bugs to bug−coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report nice translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for nice is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and nice programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils 'nice invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
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Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. |