Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:19:37 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: tcsh "nice" problem? Message-ID: <200706302219.38353.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <f66v0m$4vh$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <f66v0m$4vh$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Saturday 30 June 2007, Ivan Voras wrote: > Can someone confirm if the "nice" built-in command in tcsh works with > "-n #" style arguments? > > On two separate -CURRENT machines I have this: > > nice -n 5 date > > nice: Badly formed number > > but, > > > /usr/bin/nice -n 5 date > > works. csh's nice just takes +X or -X arguments directly (without -n), e.g.: nice -20 ./some-important-script.sh or nice +20 ./background-process.sh This is documented in the [t]csh manpage (at about byte 141580 according to more on my machine). JN
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