Command nohup invokes a utility immune to hangups
TIL nohup
invokes a utility immune to hangups.
On one of my servers I have been using nohup
for quite some time now, because I knew I had to use it to, let's say, get some things done. Nevertheless, today I learned what nohup
really does.
If you execute a job in Unix, the process will get killed as soon as you logout from the session. This can be avoided by using nohup
. nohup
keeps the process running—even if you logout from the session.
nohup
stand for no hang up.
Synopsis
nohup [--] utility [arguments]