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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.