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36 .Nd execute a utility at an altered scheduling priority
47 at an altered scheduling priority, by incrementing its
49 value by the specified
51 or a default value of 10.
52 The lower the nice value of a process, the higher its scheduling priority.
54 The superuser may specify a negative increment in order to run a utility
55 with a higher scheduling priority.
57 Some shells may provide a builtin
59 command which is similar or identical to this utility.
66 is invoked, the exit status of
71 An exit status of 126 indicates
73 was found, but could not be executed.
74 An exit status of 127 indicates
82 at priority 5 assuming the priority of the
85 # nice -n 16 nice -n -35 date
89 at priority -19 assuming the priority of the
90 shell is 0 and you are the super-user.
94 option has been deprecated but is still supported.