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nohup

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

nohup COMMAND [ARG]...
nohup OPTION

Run COMMAND, ignoring hangup signals.

display this help and exit
output version information and exit

If standard input is a terminal, redirect it from an unreadable file. 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'.

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.

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if the nohup command itself fails
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if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked
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if COMMAND cannot be found
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the exit status of COMMAND otherwise

Written by Jim Meyering.

Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
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Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nohup>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nohup invocation'

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