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/usr/bin/nice

Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils.

From uutils 0.12.0-r6 (os), captured 2026-11-07 by running nice --help (exit 0). permalink

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).

Usage: nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]

Arguments:
  [COMMAND]...

Options:
  -n, --adjustment <adjustment>  add N to the niceness (default is 10)
  -h, --help                     Print help
  -V, --version                  Print version
Options (3)
OptionDescriptionSource
-n, --adjustment adjustmentadd N to the niceness (default is 10)help + man
-h, --helpPrint helphelp + man
-V, --versionPrint versionhelp + man

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.