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 &