NICE(1)				  User Commands				 NICE(1)

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.

     -n, --adjustment=N
	    add integer N to the niceness (default 10)

     --help
	    display this help and exit

     --version
	    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 de-
     tails about the options it supports.

   Exit status:
     125    if the nice command itself fails

     126    if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked

     127    if COMMAND cannot be found

     -	    the exit status of COMMAND otherwise

AUTHOR
     Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
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COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (C) 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.

SEE ALSO
     nice(2), renice(1)

     Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nice>
     or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nice invocation'

GNU coreutils 9.11		   April 2026				 NICE(1)