Hi,
This is 4.9-STABLE on Intel PC.
The nice man-pages say:
---------------------------
EXAMPLES
$ nice -n 5 date
Execute utility `date' at priority 5 assuming the
priority of the shell is 0.
---------------------------
But when I do:
$ nice -n 5 date
nice: Badly formed number.
$
Something is wrong here, isn't it?
Regards,
Rob.
The problems is that you are using the nice builtin from the c-shell.
From the csh(1) man page...
nice [ +n|-n ] [ command ]
Increment the process priority value for the shell
or for command by n. The higher the priority
Phil.
> This is 4.9-STABLE on Intel PC.
>
> The nice man-pages say:
>
> ---------------------------
> EXAMPLES
> $ nice -n 5 date
>
> Execute utility `date' at priority 5 assuming the
> priority of the shell is 0.
> ---------------------------
>
>
> But when I do:
>
> $ nice -n 5 date
> nice: Badly formed number.
> $
>
>
> Something is wrong here, isn't it?
>
> Regards,
> Rob.
>
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 17:19, Rob wrote:> Hi, > > This is 4.9-STABLE on Intel PC. > > The nice man-pages say: > > --------------------------- > EXAMPLES > $ nice -n 5 date > > Execute utility `date' at priority 5 assuming the > priority of the shell is 0. > --------------------------- > > > But when I do: > > $ nice -n 5 date > nice: Badly formed number. > $ > > > Something is wrong here, isn't it? >I don't think so; try: beta:205> /usr/bin/nice -n 5 date Fri Dec 26 23:17:40 CST 2003 The man page does warn that same shells provide a builtin which may be similar or identical. (But may also be different in syntax; my added comment) Malcolm Kay