nice.1 (566B)
1 .Dd October 8, 2015 2 .Dt NICE 1 3 .Os sbase 4 .Sh NAME 5 .Nm nice 6 .Nd run command with altered niceness 7 .Sh SYNOPSIS 8 .Nm 9 .Op Fl n Ar inc 10 .Ar cmd 11 .Op Ar arg ... 12 .Sh DESCRIPTION 13 .Nm 14 runs 15 .Ar cmd 16 with the current niceness plus 17 .Ar inc . 18 A negative niceness is reserved to the superuser. 19 .Sh OPTIONS 20 .Bl -tag -width Ds 21 .It Fl n Ar inc 22 Change niceness by 23 .Ar inc , 24 ranging from 25 .Sy -20 26 (highest priority) 27 to 28 .Sy +20 29 (lowest priority). 30 Default is 10. 31 .El 32 .Sh SEE ALSO 33 .Xr nice 2 , 34 .Xr renice 2 35 .Sh STANDARDS 36 The 37 .Nm 38 utility is compliant with the 39 .St -p1003.1-2013 40 specification.