On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:03:15PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > nuhup somecommand > somefile & sleep 1; tail -f somefile > > That will write "nohup: appending output to `nohup.out'" to the file > somefile :-) > > The output from somecommand will still end up in nohup.out.
No it won't. At least not on my system for a simple command like 'ls': [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls Desktop Mail Makefile News az commands cvs pl prog tmp web [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nohup ls > somefile & sleep 1; tail -f somefile [1] 10084 [1]+ Done nohup ls >somefile Makefile News az commands cvs pl prog somefile tmp web [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls Desktop Mail Makefile News az commands cvs pl prog somefile tmp web [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat somefile Desktop Mail Makefile News az commands cvs pl prog somefile tmp web [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls nohup* ls: nohup*: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nohup --version nohup (GNU coreutils) 5.2.1 -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse
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