NOHUP(1) User Commands NOHUP(1) NAME nohup - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty SYNOPSIS nohup COMMAND [ARG]... nohup OPTION DESCRIPTION Run COMMAND, ignoring hangup signals. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit If standard input is a terminal, redirect it from an unreadable file. If standard output is a terminal, append output to 'nohup.out' if possible, '$HOME/nohup.out' otherwise. If standard error is a terminal, redirect it to standard output. To save output to FILE, use 'nohup COMMAND > FILE'. Your shell may have its own version of nohup, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for de- tails about the options it supports. Exit status: 125 if the nohup command itself fails 126 if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked 127 if COMMAND cannot be found - the exit status of COMMAND otherwise AUTHOR Written by Jim Meyering. REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: General help using GNU software: Report any translation bugs to COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO Full documentation or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nohup invocation' GNU coreutils 9.11 April 2026 NOHUP(1)