NICE(1)                       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.   Nice‐
       ness  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)

       --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
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       utils/>
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       ject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  ©  2020 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
       nice(2), renice(1)

       Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nice invocation'

GNU coreutils 8.32              April 2020                        NICE(1)