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.TH NICE "1" "August 2022" "GNU coreutils 8.32" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
nice \- manual page for nice 8.32
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B nice
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR] [\fI\,COMMAND \/\fR[\fI\,ARG\/\fR]...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND with an adjusted niceness, which affects process scheduling.
With no COMMAND, print the current niceness.  Niceness values range from
\fB\-20\fR (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process).
.PP
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-adjustment\fR=\fI\,N\/\fR
add integer N to the niceness (default 10)
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.PP
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.
.PP
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nice invocation'
.SH AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.