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Subject: Re: The nice utility: man pages bug?
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The problems is that you are using the nice builtin from the c-shell.

 From the csh(1) man page...

      nice [ +n|-n ] [ command ]
                Increment the process priority value for the shell
                or  for  command  by  n.   The higher the priority


Phil.


> This is 4.9-STABLE on Intel PC.
> 
> The nice man-pages say:
> 
> ---------------------------
> EXAMPLES
>      $ nice -n 5 date
> 
>      Execute utility `date' at priority 5 assuming the
>      priority of the shell is 0.
> ---------------------------
> 
> 
> But when I do:
> 
> $ nice -n 5 date
> nice: Badly formed number.
> $
> 
> 
> Something is wrong here, isn't it?
> 
> Regards,
> Rob.
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