Bug 55837
| Summary: | nice: man pages incorrect (4.8,5.0&5.1) | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Christian Wittenhorst <wiwi> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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. :
[simon@arthur:~] nice -n 10 echo Hello
nice: Badly formed number.
[simon@arthur:~] /usr/bin/nice -n 10 echo Hello
Hello
[simon@arthur:~] nice +10 echo Hello
Hello
From nice(1) :
Some shells may provide a builtin nice command which is similar or iden-
tical to this utility. Consult the builtin(1) manual page.
It think this is what you are seeing.
--
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
State Changed From-To: open->feedback Waiting for feedback from the submitter --On Thursday, August 21, 2003 15:57 +0200 "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@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 -- c. wittenhorst, progon network engineering haldenstrasse 6, ch-6300 zug, switzerland phone: +41 79 4603040, fax: +41 41 7807318 State Changed From-To: feedback->closed The submitter has confirmed that the problem was the built-in nice commands from the shell, so close the PR. |
Man pages for nice(1) incorrect/outdated. SYNOPSIS nice [-n increment] utility [argument ...] ... EXAMPLES Execute utility `date' at priority 5 assuming the priority of the shell is 0: nice -n 5 date nice(1) only accepts nice +n ... (to increase niceness) or nice -n (to decrease). The samples provides do not work How-To-Repeat: yellow:/home/sysadm/wiwi% nice -n 5 date nice: Badly formed number.