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      nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
      
      nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]

Contents 1 DESCRIPTION 2 REPORTING BUGS 3 COPYRIGHT 4 RELATED 5 CATEGORY

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.

REPORTING BUGS

      Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

      Copyright � 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
      This  is  free  software.   You  may  redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
      <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

RELATED

      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 nice
 
      should give you access to the complete manual.

CATEGORY