GNU coreutils 8.32
March 2020
coreutils
The basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system
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Documentation for the GNU Core Utilities
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 | |
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2020 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.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
nice(2), renice(1)
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice>
or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) nice invocation\(aq
or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) nice invocation\(aq
