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#  nice(1) — Linux manual page

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    _NICE_(1)                       User Commands                      _NICE_(1)
    

##  NAME  top

    
    
           nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
    

##  SYNOPSIS  top

    
    
           **nice**[_OPTION_] [_COMMAND_ [_ARG_]...]
    

##  DESCRIPTION  top

    
    
           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.
    
       **Exit status:**
           125    if the nice command itself fails
    
           126    if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked
    
           127    if COMMAND cannot be found
    
           -      the exit status of COMMAND otherwise
    

##  AUTHOR  top

    
    
           Written by David MacKenzie.
    

##  REPORTING BUGS  top

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

##  COPYRIGHT  top

    
    
           Copyright Â© 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+:
           GNU GPL version 3 or later <<https://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  top

    
    
           [nice(2)](../man2/nice.2.html), [renice(1)](../man1/renice.1.html)
    
           Full documentation <<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice>>
           or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nice invocation'
    

##  COLOPHON  top

    
    
           This page is part of the _coreutils_ (basic file, shell and text
           manipulation utilities) project.  Information about the project
           can be found at â¨<http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>â©.  If you
           have a bug report for this manual page, see
           â¨<http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>â©.  This page was obtained
           from the tarball coreutils-9.4.tar.xz fetched from
           â¨<http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/>â© on 2023-12-22.  If you
           discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page,
           or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for
           the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the
           information in this COLOPHON (which is _not_ part of the original
           manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org
    
    GNU coreutils 9.4              August 2023                       _NICE_(1)
    

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