Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:20:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/28958: nice(1) documentation incorrect Message-ID: <200107140620.f6E6K3641745@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/28958; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/28958: nice(1) documentation incorrect Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:14:44 -0700 Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes: Please wrap lines at 72 characters. Thanks. > >Description: > The nice(1) man page seems to give incorrect usage of the > command. nice --20 doesn't yield a priority of -20 (gives error > actually). nice -20 give a niceness of -20. I bet you're using csh, aren't you? csh has a 'nice' builtin with a completely differnet syntax than nice(1). If you want to use the latter's syntax (as properly described in its man page), you can reference it as `/usr/bin/nice`. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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