NOHUP(1)

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version 9.10 · 5 versions
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💖 NOHUP(1) — the "don't hang up on me bestie" page 💖

okay so this is a User Commands situation, aka the part of the nohup(1) manual where we explain the whole "run a thing and then walk away" fantasy. stay with me, it's so good 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

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

like, your command literally cannot be hung up on. it's giving secure attachment 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nohup COMMAND [ARG]...
nohup OPTION

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Run COMMAND, ignoring hangup signals. that's it, that's the whole vibe. you start a thing, you close your terminal, the thing keeps living its best life. iconic behavior fr fr ✨

  • --help — display this help and exit (your little cheat sheet, no cap)
  • --version — output version information and exit

so here's the tea about where your output goes 🍓 if standard input is a terminal, it gets redirected from an unreadable file. if standard output is a terminal, output gets appended to nohup.out if possible, and to $HOME/nohup.out otherwise. and if standard error is a terminal, it gets redirected to standard output. if you're like "bestie I want it in MY file actually" — to save output to FILE, use:

nohup COMMAND > FILE
🚨 psst — your shell may have its own version of nohup, and it usually supersedes the version described here. please go check your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports. i'm not being dramatic, i'm being accurate 😭

👑 Exit status:

  • 125 — if the nohup command itself fails (rough)
  • 126 — if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked (found the person but couldn't get them to show up 💀)
  • 127 — if COMMAND cannot be found (ghosted by your own binary 🙈)
  • - — the exit status of COMMAND otherwise (the normal case, slay)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Written by Jim Meyering. king behavior, we love him, no notes 👑

🎀 REPORTING BUGS 🎀

found a bug? don't gatekeep, tell the devs:

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Packaged by Ubuntu (9.10-1ubuntu2) — so this exact build is Ubuntu's lil remix 💖

Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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.

and that's the whole page bestie!! 💫 this one's from GNU coreutils 9.10, dated August 2026, and yeah the footer is literally just "GNU coreutils 9.10, August 2026, NOHUP(1)" but i'm saying it with my whole chest instead. mwah, go hang up on nothing 🫶✨

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