nohup
Allows for a process to live when the terminal gets killed. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/nohup-invocation.html.
- Run a process that can live beyond the terminal:
nohup
command
argument1 argument2 …
- Launch
nohup
in background mode:
nohup
command
argument1 argument2 … &
- Run a shell script that can live beyond the terminal:
nohup
path/to/script.sh &
- Run a process and write the output to a specific file:
nohup
command
argument1 argument2 … >
path/to/output_file &