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32 .\" @(#)nice.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
40 .Nd execute a utility at an altered scheduling priority
51 at an altered scheduling priority, by incrementing its
53 value by the specified
55 or a default value of 10.
56 The lower the nice value of a process, the higher its scheduling priority.
58 The superuser may specify a negative increment in order to run a utility
59 with a higher scheduling priority.
61 Some shells may provide a builtin
63 command which is similar or identical to this utility.
70 environment variable is used to locate the requested
72 if the name contains no
78 is invoked, the exit status of
83 An exit status of 126 indicates
85 was found, but could not be executed.
86 An exit status of 127 indicates
92 at priority 5 assuming the priority of the
99 at priority -19 assuming the priority of the
100 shell is 0 and you are the super-user:
102 .Dl "nice -n 16 nice -n -35 date"
106 option has been deprecated but is still supported.