nohup - Man Page
run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
Examples (TL;DR)
- Run a process that can live beyond the terminal:
nohup command argument1 argument2 ... - Launch
nohupin background mode:nohup command argument1 argument2 ... & - Run a shell script that can live beyond the terminal:
nohup path/to/script.sh & - Run a process and write the output to a specific file:
nohup command argument1 argument2 ... > path/to/output_file &
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 an unreadable file. 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'.
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.
Exit status
- 125
if the nohup command itself fails
- 126
if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked
- 127
if COMMAND cannot be found
- -
the exit status of COMMAND otherwise
Author
Written by Jim Meyering.
Reporting Bugs
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
Copyright
Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nohup>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nohup invocation'
Referenced By
incrond(8), nq(1), zshmisc(1).