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/usr/bin/nohup

Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils.

From uutils 0.12.0-r6 (os), captured 2026-11-07 by running nohup --help (exit 0). permalink

Run COMMAND ignoring hangup signals.

Usage: nohup COMMAND [ARG]...
       nohup OPTION

Options:
  -h, --help     Print help
  -V, --version  Print version

If standard input is terminal, it'll be replaced with /dev/null.
If standard output is terminal, it'll be appended to nohup.out instead,
or $HOME/nohup.out, if nohup.out open failed.
If standard error is terminal, it'll be redirected to stdout.
Options (2)
OptionDescriptionSource
-h, --helpPrint helphelp + man
-V, --versionPrint versionhelp + man

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.