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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

       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.

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

AUTHOR
       Written by David MacKenzie.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright   ©   2013   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  per‐
       mitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       nice(2), renice(1)

       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 coreutils 'nice invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.



GNU coreutils 8.22                                  November 2016                                             NICE(1)