NICE(1) General Commands Manual NICE(1) 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). SYNOPSIS nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...] 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). OPTIONS -n, --adjustment add N to the niceness (default is 10) -h, --help Print help -V, --version Print version [COMMAND] VERSION v(uutils coreutils) 0.11.0 2026-09-01 NICE(1)