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.TH NICE "1" "September 2011" "GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
nice \- run a program with modified scheduling priority
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B nice
[\fIOPTION\fR] [\fICOMMAND \fR[\fIARG\fR]...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
Run COMMAND with an adjusted niceness, which affects process scheduling.
With no COMMAND, print the current niceness.  Nicenesses range from
\fB\-20\fR (most favorable scheduling) to 19 (least favorable).
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-adjustment\fR=\fIN\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.
.SH AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report nice bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
.br
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
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Report nice translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
nice(2)
.PP
The full documentation for
.B nice
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B nice
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info coreutils \(aqnice invocation\(aq
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.