NAME

nohup − run a command immune to hangups

SYNOPSIS

nohup command [ arguments ]

DESCRIPTION

Nohup executes command with signals 1, 3 and 13 (hangup, quit and soft kill) ignored.  The priority of the command is run at nice −5.  Signal 2 (interrupt) will be ignored if the command is run asynchronously (with &) from the shell.  If the command whould have had a terminal as standard output, it is redirected to the file ‘nohup.out’. 

FILES

nohup.outredirected standard output. 

SEE ALSO

nice(1), signal(2)

7th Edition