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14 .TH nice 1 "18 June 2002" "GNU Shell Utilities 2.1"
16 nice \- run a program with modified scheduling priority
19 .BI "[\-n " adjustment "] [\-" adjustment "] [\-\-adjustment=" adjustment ]
20 .BI [ command " [" arg... ]]
22 .B nice [\-\-help] [\-\-version]
25 prints the current scheduling priority, which it inherited if no
31 with its scheduling priority adjusted.
35 is given, the priority of the
37 is incremented by 10. The priority can be
40 over the range of -20 (the highest priority) to 19 (the lowest). You must
41 have appropiate privileges to specify a negative adjustment (usually be
44 Because most shells have a built-in command by the same name, using
45 the unadorned command name may get you different functionality than that
49 .BI "\-n " adjustment ", \-" adjustment ", \-\-adjustment=" adjustment
57 Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
60 Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.
62 Report bugs to bug-sh-utils@gnu.org.
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