nice(1) [redhat man page]

NICE(1) 								FSF								   NICE(1)

NAME

       nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority

SYNOPSIS

       nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]

DESCRIPTION

       Run COMMAND with an adjusted scheduling priority.  With no COMMAND, print the current scheduling priority.  ADJUST is 10 by default.  Range
       goes from -20 (highest priority) to 19 (lowest).

       -n, --adjustment=ADJUST
	      increment priority by ADJUST first

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       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

	      info nice

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 4.5.3						   February 2003							   NICE(1)

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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

       NOTE: your shell may have its own version of nice, which usually supersedes the version described here.  Please refer to your shell's docu-
       mentation for details about the options it supports.

AUTHOR

       Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

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

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2017 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 redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       nice(2), renice(1)

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

GNU coreutils 8.28                                                 January 2018                                                            NICE(1)