nice
Displays the default niceness level of new processes; this is commonly zero, so the output would probably look like this:
0
nice -n13 pico myfile.txt
Runs the pico command on myfile.txt with an niceness increment of 13. Since we already saw that the default niceness level was zero, this runs pico with a niceness level of zero plus 13, which is 13. As a result, pico will be able to use CPU resources with a higher priority than any process running with a niceness level greater than 14, but will have a lower priority than processes with a value less than 14.
Effectively, this tells the system to treat pico as a low-priority process, but not the lowest.