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NICE(1L) manual page
nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
nice [-n adjustment] [-adjustment] [--adjustment=adjustment] [--help] [--version]
[command [arg...]]
This manual page documents the GNU version
of nice. Note that most shells have a built-in command by the same name
and with similar functionality.
If no arguments are given, nice prints
the current scheduling priority, which it inherited. Otherwise, nice runs
the given command with its scheduling priority adjusted. If no adjustment
is given, the priority of the command is incremented by 10. The superuser
can specify a negative adjustment. The priority can be adjusted by nice
over the range of -20 (the highest priority) to 19 (the lowest).
- -n adjustment, -adjustment, --adjustment=adjustment
- Add adjustment instead
of 10 to the command's priority.
- --help
- Print a usage message on standard
output and exit successfully.
- --version
- Print version information on standard
output then exit successfully.
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