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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
       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

       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.

   Exit status:
       125    if the nice command itself fails

       126    if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked

       127    if COMMAND cannot be found

       -      the exit status of COMMAND otherwise


AUTHOR

       Written by David MacKenzie.


REPORTING BUGS

       GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2024 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.


SEE ALSO

       nice(1), nice(1)

       Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nice invocation'

GNU coreutils 9.5                 March 2024                           nice(1)

coreutils 9.5 - Generated Thu Apr 18 14:15:42 CDT 2024
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