S6-NICE(1)

📦 version 2.3.1.2, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 S6-NICE(1) 💅

okay so bestie, you know how sometimes you need a program to run at a different priority level? like, politely-not-that-important energy? that's literally this whole page. it's s6-nice from the s6 suite of portable utilities — we're in the general commands manual, section 1, and this is gonna be so good i promise 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

s6-nice — execute into a program with an altered nice value. yep, that's the whole vibe: it swaps itself out for prog... but with the niceness turned up (or down, no judgment) 🌸

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

s6-nice [-I | -i] [-n value] prog...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

s6-nice acts as the generic nice[1] utility. that's it. that's the whole description. it's giving "i have one job and i do it flawlessly" ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

🌈 Standard options 🌈

  • -n increment — change the nice value by increment. and ngl the increment can be positive or negative, so you're not locked into being nice, you can be un-nice too. no cap.

🍓 Non-standard options 🍓

  • -I — Loose mode. if the nice value cannot be set to value, it prints a warning message and exec(3)s into prog... anyway. this is the default btw, so you're already living your loose life if you don't say anything. iconic.
  • -i — Strict mode. if the nice value cannot be set to value, it exits with status 111 and an error message. no warning-and-carry-on for you, bestie. it's giving boundaries.

👑 EXIT STATUS 👑

  • 111 — temporary error.
  • 100 — permanent error, such as a misuse. (read: you did something silly 🙈)
  • 127 — unable to execute program — not found. it's not there. gone. missing.
  • 126 — unable to execute program — other reason.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole s6 portable-utils family reunion, fr fr:

s6-basename(1), s6-cat(1), s6-chmod(1), s6-chown(1), s6-clock(1), s6-cut(1), s6-dirname(1), s6-dumpenv(1), s6-echo(1), s6-env(1), s6-expr(1), s6-false(1), s6-format-filter(1), s6-grep(1), s6-head(1), s6-hiercopy(1), s6-linkname(1), s6-ln(1), s6-ls(1), s6-maximumtime(1), s6-mkdir(1), s6-mkfifo(1), s6-nuke(1), s6-pause(1), s6-printenv(1), s6-quote(1), s6-quote-filter(1), s6-rename(1), s6-rmrf(1), s6-seq(1), s6-sleep(1), s6-sort(1), s6-sync(1), s6-tai64ndiff(1), s6-tail(1), s6-touch(1), s6-true(1), s6-uniquename(1), s6-unquote(1), s6-unquote-filter(1), s6-update-symlinks(1), seekablepipe(1)

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/nice.html

this man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-nice.html — go read the source if you want the raw lore 💜

⭐ STANDARDS ⭐

s6-nice is suitable as a nice[1] program conforming to . (yes, the spec reference is literally just blank there in the original too — we're not gonna pretend otherwise 💀)

💖 AUTHORS 💖

  • Laurent Bercot
  • Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)

and that's the page!! slay 💅✨

sign-off time: this beauty comes from Debian, dated April 18, 2022, and it's page S6-NICE(1) in the manual. drink some water, set your nice values responsibly, and go be the main character of your own process table 🧚💜

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