Linux nice Command

What is Linux nice Command?#

In this tutorial we learn how to use nice command in Linux. nice command is nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority.

nice Syntax#

nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]

nice Examples#

nice Command Manual / Help#

We can use man and info command to see the manual page of nice command. nice command also have --help option to show list of options.

To open man page for nice command we can use command below. To exit man or info page you can press q.

man nice

To open info page for nice command we can use command below.

info nice

To open help page from nice command we can run command below.

nice --help

Linux nice Command Source Code#

You can find nice command source code from the folowing repositories:

• nice source code on GitHub
• nice source code on GNU Savannah cgit
• nice source code on GNU Savannah gitweb

Related Linux Commands#

You can read tutorials of related Linux commands below:

• Linux w Command
• Linux id Command
• Linux who Command

Summary#

In this tutorial we learn how to use nice in Linux with practical examples. Visit our Linux Commands guide to learn more about using command line interface in Linux.