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urgent help required on changing process priority using nice

Hi folks,

Hope you can help me. I have a process that is currently running at nice 20 and need it to run faster (-10?). How do I change the process using nice? I have the process number and thought it would be along the lines of;

nice -10 process_id

but it doesn't seem to like that.

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