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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.   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.

AUTHOR

       Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report nice bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report nice translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  ©  2010  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.

SEE ALSO

       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 coreutils 'nice invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.