nohup
Sign in to savenohup is a POSIX command which means "no hang up". Its purpose is to execute a command such that it ignores the HUP (hangup) signal and therefore does not stop when the user logs out.
Key facts
- Software.name
- nohup
- Software.developer
- Various open-source and commercial developers
- Software.operating system
- Unix, Unix-like, IBM i
- Software.platform
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Command
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- GNU Core Utilities
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- described at URL
- pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799
- reads environment variable
- PATH
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Use
- Implementations
- Overcoming hanging
- Alternatives
- References
- External links
nohup is a POSIX command which means "no hang up". Its purpose is to execute a command such that it ignores the HUP (hangup) signal and therefore does not stop when the user logs out.
Output that would normally go to the terminal goes to a file called , if it has not already been redirected.
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