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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1989 The Regents of the University of California. |
2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
36b987e5 | 3 | .\" |
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4 | .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted |
5 | .\" provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are | |
6 | .\" duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, | |
7 | .\" advertising materials, and other materials related to such | |
8 | .\" distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed | |
9 | .\" by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the | |
10 | .\" University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived | |
11 | .\" from this software without specific prior written permission. | |
12 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR | |
13 | .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED | |
14 | .\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |
36b987e5 | 15 | .\" |
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16 | .\" @(#)nohup.1 6.3 (Berkeley) %G% |
17 | .\" | |
18 | .TH NOHUP 1 "" | |
36b987e5 | 19 | .SH NAME |
1896dca3 | 20 | nohup - run a utility immune to hangups and quits |
36b987e5 | 21 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
1896dca3 | 22 | .B nohup command |
36b987e5 | 23 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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24 | The |
25 | .I nohup | |
26 | utility invokes a command with the signals SIGHUP and SIGQUIT | |
27 | initially ignored. | |
28 | If the standard output is a terminal, the standard output is | |
29 | appended to the file | |
30 | .I nohup.out | |
31 | in the current directory. | |
32 | If standard error is a terminal, it is directed to the same place | |
33 | as the standard output. | |
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34 | .PP |
35 | .I Nohup | |
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36 | exits 1 if an error occurs, otherwise the exit status is that of |
37 | .IR command . | |
38 | .SH "ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES" | |
39 | .TP | |
40 | .I HOME | |
41 | If the output file | |
42 | .I nohup.out | |
43 | cannot be created in the current directory, the | |
36b987e5 | 44 | .I nohup |
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45 | utility uses the directory named by |
46 | .I HOME | |
47 | to create the file. | |
36b987e5 | 48 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
1896dca3 | 49 | signal(3) |