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        !            36: .Dd June 6, 1993
        !            37: .Dt NICE 1
        !            38: .Os
        !            39: .Sh NAME
        !            40: .Nm nice
        !            41: .Nd execute a utility with an altered scheduling priority
        !            42: .Sh SYNOPSIS
        !            43: .Nm nice
        !            44: .Op Fl n Ar increment
        !            45: .Ar utility
        !            46: .Op Ar argument ...
        !            47: .Sh DESCRIPTION
        !            48: .Nm Nice
        !            49: runs
        !            50: .Ar utility
        !            51: at an altered scheduling priority.
        !            52: If an
        !            53: .Ar increment
        !            54: is given, it is used; otherwise
        !            55: an increment of 10 is assumed.
        !            56: The super-user can run utilities with priorities higher than normal by using
        !            57: a negative
        !            58: .Ar increment .
        !            59: The priority can be adjusted over a
        !            60: range of -20 (the highest) to 20 (the lowest).
        !            61: .Pp
        !            62: Available options:
        !            63: .Bl -tag -width indent
        !            64: .It Fl n Ar increment
        !            65: A positive or negative decimal integer used to modify the system scheduling
        !            66: priority of
        !            67: .Ar utility.
        !            68: .El
        !            69: .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
        !            70: The
        !            71: .Nm nice
        !            72: utility shall exit with one of the following values:
        !            73: .Bl -tag -width indent
        !            74: .It 1-125
        !            75: An error occurred in the
        !            76: .Nm nice
        !            77: utility.
        !            78: .It 126
        !            79: The
        !            80: .Ar utility
        !            81: was found but could not be invoked.
        !            82: .It 127
        !            83: The
        !            84: .Ar utility
        !            85: could not be found.
        !            86: .El
        !            87: .Pp
        !            88: Otherwise, the exit status of
        !            89: .Nm nice
        !            90: shall be that of
        !            91: .Ar utility .
        !            92: .Sh COMPATIBILITY
        !            93: The historic
        !            94: .Fl Ns Ar increment
        !            95: option has been deprecated but is still supported in this implementation.
        !            96: .Sh SEE ALSO
        !            97: .Xr csh 1 ,
        !            98: .Xr renice 8
        !            99: .Sh STANDARDS
        !           100: The
        !           101: .Nm nice
        !           102: utility conforms to
        !           103: .St -p1003.2-92 .
        !           104: .Sh HISTORY
        !           105: A
        !           106: .Nm nice
        !           107: utility appeared in
        !           108: .At v6 .
        !           109: .Sh BUGS
        !           110: .Nm Nice
        !           111: is built into
        !           112: .Xr csh  1
        !           113: with a slightly different syntax than described here.  The form
        !           114: .Ql nice +10
        !           115: nices to positive nice, and
        !           116: .Ql nice \-10
        !           117: can be used
        !           118: by the super-user to give a process more of the processor.