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1.1       root        1: .TH NICE 1
                      2: .CT 1 proc_man
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: nice, renice, nohup \(mi run commands at low priority or immune to hangup
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B nice
                      7: [
                      8: .BI - number
                      9: ]
                     10: .I command
                     11: [
                     12: .I argument ...
                     13: ]
                     14: .PP
                     15: .B /etc/renice
                     16: [
                     17: .BI - number
                     18: ]
                     19: .I pid ...
                     20: .PP
                     21: .B nohup
                     22: .I command
                     23: [
                     24: .I argument ...
                     25: ]
                     26: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     27: .I Nice
                     28: executes
                     29: .I command
                     30: with low scheduling priority.
                     31: If the
                     32: .I number
                     33: argument is present, the priority is incremented (higher
                     34: numbers mean lower priorities) by that amount up to a limit of 19.
                     35: The default
                     36: .I number
                     37: is 10.
                     38: .PP
                     39: The super-user may run commands with
                     40: priority higher than normal
                     41: by using a negative
                     42: .I number,
                     43: e.g.
                     44: .LR --10 .
                     45: .PP
                     46: .I Renice
                     47: increments the scheduling priority
                     48: of the processes with the named
                     49: .I process-ids
                     50: by
                     51: .IR number .
                     52: The default
                     53: .IR number
                     54: is 19,
                     55: making the process least likely to run.
                     56: .PP
                     57: Only the owner of the process
                     58: or the super-user may change the priority.
                     59: Only the super-user may use negative increments.
                     60: .PP
                     61: .I Nohup
                     62: executes
                     63: .I command
                     64: immune to hangup and terminate signals from the controlling terminal.
                     65: The priority is incremented by 5.
                     66: .PP
                     67: Any output not explicitly redirected is appended to
                     68: the file
                     69: .F nohup.out
                     70: in the current directory.
                     71: .SH FILES
                     72: .FR nohup.out
                     73: default destination for standard output and standard error
                     74: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     75: .IR nice (2)
                     76: .SH FILES
                     77: .F /proc
                     78: .RI ( renice )
                     79: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
                     80: .I Nice
                     81: returns the exit status of the subject command.
                     82: .SH BUGS
                     83: Quoted
                     84: .I arguments
                     85: don't work right in all cases.
                     86: The difficulty may be avoided by quoting the
                     87: .I command,
                     88: with arguments in inner quotes.

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