On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:59:21AM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > I am very fond of doing "nohup somecommand & sleep 1; tail -f > nohup.out" to start a background job and then watch its output. Then > I can stop watching the output and log out and the job continues. > > But what I don't like is that it is writing to nohup.out. I'd prefer > another filename, one that I can set on the command line.
I'm wary of offering suggestions to someone who can play around with command lines better than I ever could, but doesn't something like: nuhup somecommand > somefile & sleep 1; tail -f somefile do what you want? -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]