'man nice' :

NAME
       nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority

SYNOPSIS
       nice [OPTION]... [COMMAND [ARG]...]
                         ^^^^^^^

Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 
> dear all,
> 
> is there a way to start a job and assign it a nice value in advance?  i'm
> thinking about doing something that will take a long time, like
> 
> find /
> 
> and assigning it a niceness of 20 (low priority) without having to renice it
> once the job has already started.
> 
> pete
> 
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