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nice (1g)

Name

nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority

Synopsis

nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]

Description




User Commands                                             NICE(1)



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.
     Nicenesses  range from -20 (most favorable scheduling) to 19
     (least favorable).

     -n, --adjustment=N
          add integer N to the niceness (default 10)

     --help
          display this help and exit

     --version
          output version information and exit

     NOTE: 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.

AUTHOR
     Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report nice bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
     GNU  coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/core-
     utils/>
     General help using GNU  software:  <http://www.gnu.org/geth-
     elp/>
     Report  nice  translation  bugs  to  <http://translationpro-
     ject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (C) 2012 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  redis-
     tribute  it.   There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted
     by law.


ATTRIBUTES
     See  attributes(5)  for  descriptions   of   the   following
     attributes:





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User Commands                                             NICE(1)



     +---------------+--------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE   |
     +---------------+--------------------+
     |Availability   | file/gnu-coreutils |
     +---------------+--------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted        |
     +---------------+--------------------+
SEE ALSO
     nice(2)

     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.



NOTES
     This   software   was   built   from   source  available  at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.   The   original
     community       source       was       downloaded       from
     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.16.tar.xz

     Further information about this software can be found on  the
     open  source  community  website at http://www.gnu.org/soft-
     ware/coreutils/.


























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