NICE(1)

💖 NICE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the nice page from the General Commands Manual — she's short, she's iconic, she controls how much the CPU loves you. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ 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).

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]

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🦋 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).

fr fr, niceness is just how nicely you're asking the scheduler to treat you. lower = more priority, higher = you're volunteering to wait. the way that -20 is "most favorable" and 19 is "least favorable" — memorize it, iykyk 💅

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -n, --adjustment — add N to the niceness (default is 10) 🌸
• -h, --help — print help 💜
• -V, --version — print version ⭐
• [COMMAND] — the thing you want to run, bestie 🎀

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🌈 VERSION 🌈

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

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💅 EXAMPLES 💅

print the current niceness value:

nice

increment the current niceness value by 10:

nice nice

launch a program with lowered priority:

nice -niceness_value command

launch a program with heightened priority:

sudo nice --niceness_value command

define the priority with an explicit option:

nice [-n|--adjustment] niceness_value command

the examples are provided by the tldr-pages project https://tldr.sh under the CC BY 4.0 License. please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail. 🙈 lowkey a warning but highkey a heads up, periodt.

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okay that's the whole page, you ate it 🍓 this was NICE(1) from the General Commands Manual, sourced from uutils coreutils version 0.12.0, dated 2026-09-25. go adjust somebody's niceness, bestie 💖✨🦋