The nohup command

• The nohup command can be used to submit jobs to cron you don’t think can be completed by the time you log out. The process will continue processing even after you log out.

• This can be particularly useful for a long-running tasks and/or when you can't wait around while the command executes.

• nohup command & is the command structure to accomplish this.

• If you DO log out of the terminal, any output from the job will be redirected to a file called nohup.out in your current directory by default.

• Terminals need to be closed with exit command.