NOHUP
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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NAME
nohup - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
SYNOPSIS
nohup
COMMAND [ARG]...
nohup
OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND, ignoring hangup signals.
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
If standard input is a terminal, redirect it from /dev/null.
If standard output is a terminal, append output to `nohup.out' if possible,
`$HOME/nohup.out' otherwise.
If standard error is a terminal, redirect it to standard output.
To save output to FILE, use `nohup COMMAND > FILE'.
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of nohup, which usually supersedes
the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report nohup bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for
nohup
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
nohup
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils aqnohup invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.