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Thursday, February 19, 2009

nohup - countine a job or command even after logoff

whatis nohup
nohup (1p) - invoke a utility immune to hangups
nohup (1) - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty

nohup

Keeps a command running even after user logs off. The command will run as a foreground process unless followed by &. If you use nohup within a script, consider coupling it with a wait to avoid creating an orphan or zombie process.

nohup command args

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