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)
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--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.
Exit status:
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125 |
if the nice command itself fails |
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126 |
if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked |
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|
127 |
if COMMAND cannot be found |
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- |
the exit status of COMMAND otherwise |
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright
© 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+:
GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://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
Full
documentation
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice>;
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nice
invocation'