NAME

nice — invoke command with modified nice scheduling value

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

nice runs command with a modified niceness, changing the scheduling of the process.

As required by POSIX, if the user lacks the privileges to change the niceness a warning message is printed to stderr but the execution continues and command gets executed, without it's niceness changed.

OPTIONS

-n increment

Positive or negative integer used to adjust the niceness of the process. (default: 0)

EXIT STATUS

If command is invoked, the exit status of nice shall be the exit status of command; Otherwise, the nice utility shall exit with one of the following values:

125

An error occurred within the nice utility.

126

command was found but couldn't be invoked.

127

command wasn't found.

SEE ALSO

renice(1), nice(3)

STANDARDS

nice should be compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 (“POSIX.1”) specification.

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>