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11.4 nohup: Run a command immune to hangups

nohup runs the given command with hangup signals ignored, so that the command can continue running in the background after you log out. Synopsis:

nohup command [arg]...

nohup increases the scheduling priority of command by 5, so it has a slightly smaller change to run. If standard output is a terminal, it and standard error are redirected so that they are appended to the file `nohup.out'; if that cannot be written to, they are appended to the file `$HOME/nohup.out'. If that cannot be written to, the command is not run.

If nohup creates either `nohup.out' or `$HOME/nohup.out', it creates it with no "group" or "other" access permissions. It does not change the permissions if the output file already existed.

nohup does not automatically put the command it runs in the background; you must do that explicitly, by ending the command line with an `&'.

The only options are `--help' and `--version'. See section 2. Common options.