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/usr/bin/nice [-increment | -n increment] command [argument]...
/usr/xpg4/bin/nice [-increment | -n increment] command [argument]...
nice [-increment | +increment] [command]
The nice utility invokes command, requesting that it be run with a different system scheduling priority. The priocntl(1) command is a more general interface to scheduler functions.
The invoking process (generally the user's shell) must be in a scheduling class that supports nice.
If the C shell (see csh(1)) is used, the full path of the command must be specified. Otherwise, the csh built-in version of nice will be invoked. See csh Builtin below.
If nice executes commands with arguments, it uses the default shell /usr/bin/sh (see sh(1)).
nice is also a csh built-in command with behavior different from the utility versions. See csh(1) for description.
The following options are supported: -increment | -n increment
increment is a positive or negative decimal integer that has the same effect on the execution of the utility as if the utility had called the nice() function with the numeric value of the increment option-argument. See nice(2). nice() errors, other than EINVAL, are ignored. If not specified, an increment of 10 is assumed. The super-user may run commands with priority higher than normal by using a negative increment such as -10. A negative increment assigned by an unprivileged user is ignored.
The following operands are supported: command
The name of a command that is to be invoked. If command names any of the special built-in utilities (see shell_builtins(1)), the results are undefined.
Any string to be supplied as an argument when invoking command.
See environ(7) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of nice: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, PATH, and NLSPATH.
If command is invoked, the exit status of nice will be the exit status of command. Otherwise, nice will exit with one of the following values: 1-125
An error occurred.
command was found but could not be invoked.
command could not be found.
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| CSI Enabled |
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| CSI Enabled |
| Interface Stability Standard |
csh (1), ksh (1), nohup (1), priocntl (1), sh (1), shell_builtins (1), nice (2), attributes (7), environ (7), standards (7)