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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.  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 supersedes the version
       described here.  Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the  options
       it supports.

       GNU  coreutils  online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report nice transla-
       tion bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

AUTHOR
       Written by David MacKenzie.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright } 2013 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), renice(1)

       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.



GNU coreutils 8.22                         October 2018                                   NICE(1)