NICE(1) BSD General Commands Manual NICE(1)

NAME
     nniiccee - execute a utility with an altered scheduling priority

SYNOPSIS
     nniiccee [-nn increment] utility [argument ...]

DESCRIPTION
     nniiccee runs utility at an altered scheduling priority.  If an increment is
     given, it is used; otherwise an increment of 10 is assumed.  The super-
     user can run utilities with priorities higher than normal by using a neg-
     ative increment.  The priority can be adjusted over a range of -20 (the
     highest) to 20 (the lowest).

     Available options:

     -nn increment
             A positive or negative decimal integer used to modify the system
             scheduling priority of utility.

DIAGNOSTICS     The nniiccee utility shall exit with one of the following values:

     1-125   An error occurred in the nniiccee utility.

     126     The utility was found but could not be invoked.

     127     The utility could not be found.

     Otherwise, the exit status of nniiccee shall be that of utility.

CCOOMMPPAATTIIBBIILLIITTYY
     The historic -increment option has been deprecated but is still supported
     in this implementation.

SEE ALSO
     csh(1), getpriority(2), setpriority(2), renice(8)

STANDARDS
     The nniiccee utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').

HISTORY     A nniiccee utility appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

BUGS
     nniiccee is built into csh(1) with a slightly different syntax than described
     here.  The form `nice +10' nices to positive nice, and `nice -10' can be
     used by the super-user to give a process more of the processor.

BSD                              June 6, 1993                              BSD