NOHUP

nohup − run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty

nohup COMMAND [ARG]...
nohup OPTION

Run COMMAND, ignoring hangup signals.

−−help

display this help and exit

−−version

output version information and exit

If standard input is a terminal, redirect it from /dev/null. If standard output is a terminal, append output to ‘nohup.out’ if possible, ‘$HOME/nohup.out’ otherwise. If standard error is a terminal, redirect it to standard output. To save output to FILE, use ‘nohup COMMAND > FILE’.

NOTE: your shell may have its own version of nohup, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell’s documentation for details about the options it supports.

Written by Jim Meyering.

Report nohup bugs to bug−coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report nohup translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

The full documentation for nohup is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and nohup programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info coreutils 'nohup invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.