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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 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.

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

AUTHOR
       Written by David MacKenzie.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 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		 February 2016			       NICE(1)