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.