Start process with adjusted priority

bash

nice -n 10 tar -czf backup.tgz /srv/data

Explanation

Higher nice values are lower priority.

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Show the current absolute path.

Create an empty file if it does not exist.

Concatenate and print files to standard output.

Print lines matching a pattern.

Show permissions and ownership on files.

List files and directories.