NOHUP(1)

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version 0.12.0 · 7 versions
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💖 NOHUP(1) 💖

okay so bestie, we're doing the nohup page from the General Commands Manual and honestly? it's a whole vibe. short, sweet, iconic. let's go 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

nohup — Run COMMAND ignoring hangup signals.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

nohup COMMAND [ARG]...
nohup OPTION

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Run COMMAND ignoring hangup signals.

that's it. that's the whole thing. your command gets to keep living its best life even when the terminal tries to hang up on it 💀✋

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — Print help
  • -V, --version — Print version

two options, both absolute sweethearts, no notes 💖

🦋 EXTRA 🦋

okay this is the part you actually need to know, so listen up 👑

  • If standard input is terminal, it'll be replaced with /dev/null.
  • If standard output is terminal, it'll be appended to nohup.out instead, or $HOME/nohup.out, if nohup.out open failed.
  • If standard error is terminal, it'll be redirected to stdout.

like. it literally rehomes your streams so nothing gets orphaned when the terminal dips 😭 so thoughtful of it fr fr

💜 VERSION 💜

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

✨ Run a process that can live beyond the terminal

nohup command argument1 argument2 ...

✨ Launch nohup in background mode

nohup command argument1 argument2 ... &

✨ Run a shell script that can live beyond the terminal

nohup path/to/script.sh &

✨ Run a process and write the output to a specific file

nohup command argument1 argument2 ... > path/to/output_file &
The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project https://tldr.sh under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail. 🙈

okay bestie that's the whole page, you're officially a nohup girlie now 👑 this was NOHUP(1), dated 2026-09-25, and the version is uutils coreutils 0.12.0 — go keep some processes alive, mwah 💋✨

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