nohup Linux Commands

What is Linux nohup Command?

Explanation

nohup COMMAND:

Linux has the ability to run a job in background using commands such as &, bg. The job would be killed when the root user logs out. In order to avoid this, nohup command is used.

SYNTAX :


nohup Command &

OPTIONS:


-a Always changes the signal disposition of target processes.
-F Force. Grabs the target processes even if another process has control.
-p Operates on a list of process groups.
--help display this help and exit.
--version output version information and exit.

EXAMPLE:


  1. nohup find -name '*' -size +1000k > log.txt
    Output:
  2. In the above example, the command is used to find the files with the size greater than 1000K, with no hang up, and place it in the log.txt file.

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