Name

nohup

Synopsis

    nohup command [arguments] &

Continue to execute the named command and optional command arguments after you log out (make command immune to hangups; i.e., no hangup). In the C shell, nohup is built in. In the Korn and Bash shells, nohup allows output redirection; output goes to nohup.out by default. In the Korn shell, nohup is an alias that allows the command it runs to also be aliased. (See Chapters 4 and 5.)

The Solaris /usr/bin/nohup accepts some rather specialized options; see the manpage for details.

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