Re: nice bug

[Bob Proulx]

> address@hidden:~/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.
> 
> address@hidden:~/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 <address@hidden>.
> 
> address@hidden:~/tcl$ uname -a
> Linux dsnra2 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i686 unknown
> 
> address@hidden:~/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
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