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Alphabetical Summary of Commands > nice - Pg. 259

nice -w List only raw sockets. -x List only Unix domain sockets. newgrp newgrp [group] Description Change user's group identification to the specified group. If no group is specified, change to the user's login group. The new group is then used for checking permissions. Linux Commands newusers newusers file Description System administration command. Create or update system users from entries in file. Each line in file has the same format as an entry in /etc/passwd, except passwords are unencrypted, and group IDs can be given as a name or number. During an update, the password age field is ignored if the user already exists in the /etc/shadow password file. If a group name or ID does not already exist, it will be created. If a home directory does not exist, it will be created. nfsd rpc.nfsd [options] Description System administration command. Daemon that starts the NFS server daemons that handle client filesystem requests. These daemons are user-level processes. The options are exactly the same as in mountd. nice nice [option] [command [arguments]] Description Execute a command (with its arguments) with lower priority (i.e., be "nice" to other users). With no arguments, nice prints the default scheduling priority (niceness). If nice is a child process, it prints the parent process's scheduling priority. Niceness has a range of -20 (highest priority) to 19 (lowest priority). Chapter 3:Linux Commands | 259