UGC NET CSE | August 2016 | Part 3 | Question: 69

Question

Which of the following statement(s) is/are True regarding ‘nice’ command of UNIX ?

I. It is used to set or change the priority of a process.

II. A process’s nice value can be set at the time of creation.

III. ‘nice’ takes a command line as an argument.

• A. $I, II$ only
• B. $II, III$ only
• C. $I, II, III$ 
• D. $I, III$ only

Answer 1

Nice command runs a command with a modified scheduling priority.It is used to set or change the priority of a process.  A process’s nice value can be set at the time of creation.It also takes a command line as an argument.

nice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]