nice command doesn't appear to work properly with tcsh

[P Wagner]

m7674n:~> echo $SHELL
/usr/bin/tcsh
m7674n:~> tcsh --version
tcsh 6.14.00 (Astron) 2005-03-25 (i486-intel-linux) options wide,nls,dl,al,kan,rh,nd,color,filec

m7674n:~> nice -n 10 nice
nice: Badly formed number.

I came across this when trying to lower the priority when using p7zip. I like using tcsh though it appears that nice doesn't like the shell. Works fine in sh. Not sure if I should be bothering the Astron folks or Unbuntu... Thanks!

[Paul Broadhead (pjbroad)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in tcsh.
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[P Wagner (pwagner)]

Note: The same problem occurs in the csh shell. More specifically this is the Package: csh (20070713-1) [universe] as a part of the hardy 8.04 set of software. Whatever is causing the problem it must be common between Package: tcsh (6.14.00-7) [universe] and the csh (something in the libc6?)...

[Paul Broadhead (pjbroad)]

Just following this up.

tcsh/csh have their own nice command build into the shell which take different parameters. From within tcsh/csh, you can access the 'normal' nice command using /usr/bin/nice which works fine. Here's a link to a similar discussion:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-July/074372.html

I think we should close this bug as it is not really a bug.

[P Wagner (pwagner)]

Mr. Broadhead,

Thanks for the information!

Yes, this should be closed...

Thanks again,

Phillip

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Paul Broadhead <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Just following this up.
>
> tcsh/csh have their own nice command build into the shell which take
> different parameters. From within tcsh/csh, you can access the 'normal'
> nice command using /usr/bin/nice which works fine. Here's a link to a
> similar discussion:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-July/074372.html
>
> I think we should close this bug as it is not really a bug.
>
> --
> nice command doesn't appear to work properly with tcsh
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280509
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[Paul Broadhead (pjbroad)]

Agreed, not a bug. tcsh built in nice command is just different.