On Tue 18 Jan 2005 at 15:41:38 +0100, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> not really, -20 is the highest priority, 20 is the lowest.  the manual
> page is pretty clear on the subject.

Yes, but "nice -20" is equivalent to "nice -n 20":

COMPATIBILITY
     The historic -increment option has been deprecated but is still supported
     in this implementation.

-Olaf.
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