NAME

nohup — run command with hangups ignored

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

nohup runs command with SIGHUP ignored, allowing to keep command running even after the terminal hanged up.

If stdout is TTY, it's output is saved to ./nohup.out or if it fails to open it for writing, to ~/nohup.out. If stderr is also a TTY, it's output is also saved to nohup.out.

EXIT STATUS

If command is invoked, the exit status of nohup shall be the exit status of command; Otherwise, the nohup utility shall exit with one of the following values:

126

command was found but couldn't be invoked.

127

command wasn't found or an error occurred within the nohup utility.

SEE ALSO

tmux(1)

STANDARDS

nohup should be compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 (“POSIX.1”) specification.

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>