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
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     <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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     Report        nice        translation        bugs         to
     <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright c 2010 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  redistri-
     bute  it.   There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
     law.

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



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