How to change a nice value of process from a normal user?

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Issue

  • How to change a nice value of process from a normal user?
  • What is sudo nohup command and how to use it?
  • I have sudo privilege and I want to give process a nice value ( positive or negative).
  • What order should I put the three commands in?
# sudo nohup nice nicevalue myscript.bash &
or 
nohup sudo nice nicevalue myscript.bash &

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
  • sudo

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