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NICE

NICE

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR REPORTING BUGS COPYRIGHT SEE ALSO


NAME

nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority

SYNOPSIS

nice [''OPTION''? [''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).

-ADJUST

increment priority by ADJUST first

-n, --adjustment=ADJUST

same as -ADJUST

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by David !MacKenzie?.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2000 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 PARTICULAR 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.


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