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<html> <head> <title>nice</title> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="nice"> </head> <body BGCOLOR="#ffffff" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#0000ff" ALINK="#0000ff" TEXT="#000000"> <center> <h1><b>nice</b></h1></center> <PRE> <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/NICE">NICE(1)</A></STRONG> User Commands <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/NICE">NICE(1)</A></STRONG> NAME nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority SYNOPSIS nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...] DESCRIPTION Run COMMAND with an adjusted niceness, which affects process schedul- ing. 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 super- sedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's docu- mentation for details about the options it supports. AUTHOR Written by David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report nice translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2018 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 <STRONG><A HREF="/man2/nice">nice(2)</A></STRONG>, <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/renice">renice(1)</A></STRONG> Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nice invocation' GNU coreutils 8.30 September 2019 <STRONG><A HREF="/man1/NICE">NICE(1)</A></STRONG></PRE> <center> <h6>Man Pages Copyright Respective Owners. Site Copyright (C) 1994 - 2025 <a href="http://www.he.net">Hurricane Electric</a>. All Rights Reserved.</h6></center> </body> </html>