nice

nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]

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).

Options

--adjustment, -n

add N to the niceness (default is 10)

Examples

Print the current niceness value:

nice

Increment the current niceness value by 10:

nice nice

Launch a program with lowered priority:

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

Launch a program with heightened priority:

sudo 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.