• 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.  Nicenesses range from -20 (most favorable scheduling) to 19 (least favorable).

  -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/>
• COPYRIGHT
  
  Copyright © 2009 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)
  
  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 (aqnice invocation(aq
  
  should give you access to the complete manual.

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