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1.1     ! root        1: .TH NICE 1  "18 January 1983"
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: nice, nohup \- run a command at low priority (\fIsh\fR only)
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B nice
        !             7: [
        !             8: .BI \- number
        !             9: ]
        !            10: command [ arguments ]
        !            11: .PP
        !            12: .B nohup
        !            13: command [ arguments ]
        !            14: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            15: .I Nice
        !            16: executes
        !            17: .I command
        !            18: with low scheduling priority.
        !            19: If the
        !            20: .I number
        !            21: argument is present, the priority is incremented (higher
        !            22: numbers mean lower priorities) by that amount up to a limit of 20.
        !            23: The default
        !            24: .I number
        !            25: is 10.
        !            26: .PP
        !            27: The super-user may run commands with
        !            28: priority higher than normal
        !            29: by using a negative priority,
        !            30: e.g. `\-\-10'.
        !            31: .PP
        !            32: .I Nohup
        !            33: executes
        !            34: .I command
        !            35: immune to hangup and terminate signals from the controlling terminal.
        !            36: The priority is incremented by 5.
        !            37: .I Nohup
        !            38: should be invoked from the shell with `&' in order to 
        !            39: prevent it from responding to interrupts by or
        !            40: stealing the input from
        !            41: the next person who logs in on the same terminal.
        !            42: The syntax of nice is also different.
        !            43: .SH FILES
        !            44: nohup.out      standard output and standard error file under
        !            45: .I nohup
        !            46: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            47: csh(1), setpriority(2), renice(8)
        !            48: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            49: .I Nice
        !            50: returns the exit status of the subject command.
        !            51: .SH BUGS
        !            52: .I Nice
        !            53: and
        !            54: .I nohup
        !            55: are particular to
        !            56: .IR sh (1).
        !            57: If you use
        !            58: .IR csh (1),
        !            59: then commands executed with ``&'' are automatically immune to hangup
        !            60: signals while in the background.
        !            61: There is a builtin command
        !            62: .I nohup
        !            63: which provides immunity from terminate, but it does not
        !            64: redirect output to
        !            65: .I nohup.out.
        !            66: .PP
        !            67: .I Nice
        !            68: is built into
        !            69: .IR csh (1)
        !            70: with a slightly different syntax than described here.  The form
        !            71: ``nice +10'' nices to positive nice, and ``nice \-10'' can be used
        !            72: by the super-user to give a process more of the processor.

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