702-100: Linux Professional Institute BSD SpecialistDemo

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Basic Unix Skills

What is the purpose of the nice command?

  • A Run a command with the permissions of another user.
  • B Run a command with limited access to a specified directory.
  • C Run a command with additional filesystem permissions.
  • D Run a command with additional secondary groups.
  • E Run a command with a non-standard priority.
Explanation

The nice command runs a program with a specified niceness value, altering its scheduling priority relative to other processes. Higher niceness generally gives the process lower CPU priority.

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