2003/12/04 nohup

© December 2003 Tony Lawrence

Run a command that won't be killed when you log out.

When you log out or are otherwise disconnected, a hangup signal is sent to all your processes. Using nohup causes those signals to be ignored:

nohup myscript > myscript.out 2>&1 &
 

If you just do:

nohup myscript &
 

any output from "myscript" will be sent to "nohup.out" which will be created or appended to.

Make sure "myscript" doesn't read from standard input; that won't work without redirection:

nohup myscript < answers &                           
 

Note that you need "&" to put the command in background; nohup doesn't do that for you.

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