NAME

nohup − run a command immune to hangups and quits

SYNOPSIS

nohup command [ arguments ]

DESCRIPTION

Nohup executes command with hangups and quits ignored.  If output is not re-directed by the user, it will be sent to nohup.out.  If nohup.out is not writable in the current directory, output is redirected to $HOME/nohup.out. 

SEE ALSO

nice(1), signal(2).