NICE(1) General Commands Manual NICE(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

nice - 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).

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**nice** \[OPTION] \[COMMAND \[ARG]...]

# [DESCRIPTION](#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).

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

[**-n**, **--adjustment**](#n)

add N to the niceness (default is 10)

[**-h**, **--help**](#h)

Print help

[**-V**, **--version**](#V)

Print version

\[*COMMAND*]

# [VERSION](#VERSION)

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

2026-10-29

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Document: nice(1) from uutils 0.12.0-r5 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils