NOHUP(1) User Commands NOHUP(1) 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: General help using GNU software: Report nohup translation bugs to COPYRIGHT Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . 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 'nohup invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb September 2011 NOHUP(1)