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Linux & Shell interview questions
Permissions, processes, pipes and the commands you are expected to know cold.
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- What are nice and renice, and what do the values mean?
nice starts a process with a chosen priority adjustment and renice changes it for a running process. Niceness ranges from -20 (highest priority) to 19 (lowest). Lowering priority with a higher number is polite to others; raising it needs root.
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