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    NICE

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    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)
    –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

    GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
    Report nice translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

    COPYRIGHT

    Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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.

    Willie has over 15 years of experience in Linux system administration and DevOps. After managing infrastructure for startups and enterprises alike, he founded Command Linux to share the practical knowledge he wished he had when starting out. He oversees content strategy and contributes guides on server management, automation, and security.

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