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Created February 28, 2013 15:35
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Have a shell script always run with a nice, low priority
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run_as_nice.sh
#!/usr/bin/nice /bin/bash
#
# Your script goes here....
#
# Now when this script is run from the command line as ./run_as_nice.sh, it will execute with lower
# priority to avoid causing the load average to spike as much.
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rietta commented Feb 28, 2013

I got tired of always typing:
nice backups.sh

:-)

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