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NICE(1)                DragonFly General Commands Manual               NICE(1)

NAME
     nice -- execute a utility at an altered scheduling priority

SYNOPSIS
     nice [-n increment] utility [argument ...]

DESCRIPTION
     The nice utility runs utility at an altered scheduling priority, by
     incrementing its ``nice'' value by the specified increment, or a default
     value of 10.  The lower the nice value of a process, the higher its
     scheduling priority.

     The superuser may specify a negative increment in order to run a utility
     with a higher scheduling priority.

     Some shells may provide a builtin nice command which is similar or
     identical to this utility.  Consult the builtin(1) manual page.

EXIT STATUS
     If utility is invoked, the exit status of nice is the exit status of
     utility.

     An exit status of 126 indicates utility was found, but could not be
     executed.  An exit status of 127 indicates utility could not be found.

EXAMPLES
     $ nice -n 5 date

     Execute utility `date' at priority 5 assuming the priority of the shell
     is 0.

     # nice -n 16 nice -n -35 date

     Execute utility `date' at priority -19 assuming the priority of the shell
     is 0 and you are the super-user.

COMPATIBILITY
     The traditional -increment option has been deprecated but is still
     supported.

SEE ALSO
     builtin(1), csh(1), idprio(1), rtprio(1), getpriority(2), setpriority(2),
     renice(8)

STANDARDS
     The nice utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').

HISTORY
     A nice utility appeared in Version 4 AT&T UNIX.

DragonFly 4.3                    June 6, 1993                    DragonFly 4.3