nice

nice [OPTIONS] [COMMAND [ARGS]]

Run COMMAND with an adjusted niceness, which affects process scheduling. With no COMMAND, print the current niceness. Niceness values range from at least -20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process).

Options

--adjustment, -n

add N to the niceness (default is 10)

Examples

Launch a program with altered priority:

nice -{{niceness_value}} {{command}}

Define the priority with an explicit option:

nice {{-n|--adjustment}} {{niceness_value}} {{command}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.