nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]
NICE(1) 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 schedul-
ing. 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
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of nice, which usually super-
sedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's docu-
mentation for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report nice translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later <https://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.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Availability | file/gnu-coreutils |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------+
SEE ALSO
nice(2), renice(1)
Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nice invocation'
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/core-
utils-8.30.tar.xz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils.
GNU coreutils 8.30 July 2018 NICE(1)