NAME 

nohup - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty

SYNOPSIS 

nohup COMMAND [ARG]... nohup OPTION

DESCRIPTION 

Run COMMAND, ignoring hangup signals.

--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit

NOTE: your shell may have its own version of nohup, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports.

AUTHOR 

Written by Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS 

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT 

Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO 

The full documentation for nohup is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and nohup programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info nohup

should give you access to the complete manual.