> kuiper@dsnra2:~/tcl$ nice -ADJUST xdos Thanks for the report. The documentation perhaps is not completely clear that ADJUST is meant to be a number.
> -ADJUST increment priority by ADJUST first > Range goes from -20 (highest priority) to 19 (lowest). Several traditional commands like nice, head, tail, etc. all would take -NUMBER (NUMBER being a number) but that is an inconsistent interface and today's wisdom says all options should be an option followed by an argument. So the prefered syntax would be -n 10 instead of -10, for example. The normal usage of nice is something like the following. nice xdos nice -n 10 xdos As always 'info nice' will get you the documentation. Hope that helps to clear that up. Bob > nice: invalid option -- A > Try `nice --help' for more information. > > kuiper@dsnra2:~/tcl$ nice --help > Usage: nice [OPTION]... [COMMAND [ARG]...] > Run COMMAND with an adjusted scheduling priority. > With no COMMAND, print the current scheduling priority. ADJUST is 10 > by default. > > -n, --adjustment=ADJUST same as -ADJUST > --help display this help and exit > --version output version information and exit > > Report bugs to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > kuiper@dsnra2:~/tcl$ uname -a > Linux dsnra2 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i686 unknown > > kuiper@dsnra2:~/tcl$ nice --version > nice (GNU sh-utils) 2.0 > Written by David MacKenzie. > > Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > > I hope this is sufficient information. > > Tom Kuiper > -- > Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (137.79.89.31) > SnailMail: Jet Propulsion Lab 169-506, Pasadena, CA 91109 > Phone/fax: (818) 354-5623/8895 > WWW: http://DSNra.JPL.NASA.gov/~kuiper/ _______________________________________________ Bug-sh-utils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-sh-utils
