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                     20: .Dd July 24, 1990
                     21: .Dt NOHUP 1
                     22: .Sh NAME
                     23: .Nm nohup
                     24: .Nd invoke a command immune to hangups
                     25: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     26: .Nm nohup
                     27: .Ar command
                     28: .Op Ar arg ...
                     29: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     30: The
                     31: .Nm nohup
                     32: utility invokes
                     33: .Ar command
                     34: with
                     35: its arguments
                     36: and at this time sets the signal SIGHUP
                     37: to be ignored. The signal SIGQUIT may also be set
                     38: to be ignored.
                     39: If the standard output is a terminal, the standard output is
                     40: appended to the file
                     41: .Pa nohup.out
                     42: in the current directory.
                     43: If standard error is a terminal, it is directed to the same place
                     44: as the standard output.
                     45: .Pp
                     46: .Nm Nohup
                     47: exits 1 if an error occurs, otherwise the exit status is that of
                     48: .Ar command  .
                     49: .Sh ENVIRONMENT
                     50: The following variable is utilized by
                     51: .Nm nohup .
                     52: .Tw Fl
                     53: .Tp Ev HOME
                     54: If the output file
                     55: .Pa nohup.out
                     56: cannot be created in the current directory, the
                     57: .Nm nohup
                     58: utility uses the directory named by
                     59: .Ev HOME
                     60: to create the file.
                     61: .Tp
                     62: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     63: .Xr signal 3
                     64: .Sh STANDARDS
                     65: The nohup function is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compatible.

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