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NICE
Section: User Commands (1) Updated: February 2026 Index
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NAME
nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
SYNOPSIS
nice
[ ,OPTION/] [ ,COMMAND /[ ,ARG/]...]
DESCRIPTION
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).
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#nic-n'-n, --adjustment=,NX'tty: link'/
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add integer N to the niceness (default 10)
- X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice#nic-help'--helpX'tty: link'
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display this help and exit
- X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice#nic-version'--versionX'tty: link'
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output version information and exit
Your shell may have its own version of nice, which usually supersedes
the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
for details about the options it supports.
Exit status:
- 125
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if the nice command itself fails
- 126
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if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked
- 127
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if COMMAND cannot be found
- -
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the exit status of COMMAND otherwise
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
Report Gentoo bugs to: https://bugs.gentoo.org/
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
SEE ALSO
nice(2), renice(1)
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) nice invocationaq
Packaged by Gentoo (9.10 (p0))
Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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