docs/55837: nice: man pages incorrect (4.8,5.0&5.1)

Christian Wittenhorst wiwi at progon.net
Wed Sep 3 19:40:24 UTC 2003


The following reply was made to PR docs/55837; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christian Wittenhorst <wiwi at progon.net>
To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/55837: nice: man pages incorrect (4.8,5.0&5.1)
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:15:17 +0200

 --On Thursday, August 21, 2003 15:57 +0200 "Simon L. Nielsen" 
 <simon at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
 
 > On 2003.08.21 13:42:20 +0000, Christian Wittenhorst wrote:
 >>
 >> > Number:         55837
 >> > Category:       docs
 >> > Synopsis:       nice: man pages incorrect (4.8,5.0&5.1)
 >> > How-To-Repeat:
 >>         yellow:/home/sysadm/wiwi%  nice -n 5 date
 >>         nice: Badly formed number.
 >
 > Which shell are you using?  Most shells have their own version of nice
 > with different syntax than nice(1). e.g. :
 
 Of course you are right. What a stupid mistake. I thought to use sh but 
 actually used bash in fact. Sorry for the troubles!
 
 Best regards,
 
 	wiwi
 
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