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

       Report nice bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
       Report nice translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

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.