nice
(1g)
Name
nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
Synopsis
nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]
Description
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 [email protected]
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/core-
utils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/geth-
elp/>
Report nice translation bugs to <http://translationpro-
ject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2012 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 redis-
tribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted
by law.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
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User Commands NICE(1)
+---------------+--------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Availability | file/gnu-coreutils |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------+
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
info coreutils 'nice invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.16.tar.xz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/soft-
ware/coreutils/.
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