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

[Simon L. Nielsen]

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

From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org>
To: Christian Wittenhorst <wiwi at progon.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/55837: nice: man pages incorrect (4.8,5.0&5.1)
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:57:39 +0200

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 On 2003.08.21 13:42:20 +0000, Christian Wittenhorst wrote:
 >=20
 > >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. :
 
 [simon at arthur:~] nice -n 10 echo Hello
 nice: Badly formed number.
 [simon at arthur:~] /usr/bin/nice -n 10 echo Hello
 Hello
 [simon at arthur:~] nice +10 echo Hello
 Hello
 
 =46rom nice(1) :
 
      Some shells may provide a builtin nice command which is similar or ide=
 n-
      tical to this utility.  Consult the builtin(1) manual page.
 
 It think this is what you are seeing.
 
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 Simon L. Nielsen
 FreeBSD Documentation Team
 
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