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.

AUTHOR

       Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

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

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  ©  2017  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)

       Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nice invocation'