Can I change the name of nohup out

Question

When I run nohup some command  amp   the output goes to nohup out  man nohup says to look at info nohup which in turn says      If standard output is a terminal  the   command s standard output is appended   to the file  nohup out   if that   cannot be written to  it is appended   to the file   HOME nohup out   and if   that cannot be written to  the command   is not run    But if I already have one command using nohup with output going to  nohup out and I want to run another  nohup command  can I redirect the output to nohup2 out

User · Answer

Above methods will remove your output file data whenever you run above nohup command.

To Append output in user defined file you can use >> in nohup command.

nohup your_command >> filename.out &

This command will append all output in your file without removing old data.

User · Answer

As the file handlers points to i-nodes  which are stored independently from file names  on Linux Unix systems You can rename the default nohup out to any other filename any time after starting nohup something amp   So also one could do the following     nohup something amp    mv nohup out nohup2 out   nohup something2 amp    Now something adds lines to nohup2 out and something2 to nohup out

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For some reason  the above answer did not work for me  I did not return to the command prompt after running it as I expected with the trailing  amp   Instead  I simply tried with  nohup some command  gt  nohup2 out amp    and it works just as I want it to  Leaving this here in case someone else is in the same situation  Running Bash 4 3 8 for reference

User · Answer

nohup some command  amp  gt  nohup2 out  amp    and voila     Older syntax for Bash version  lt  4   nohup some command  gt  nohup2 out 2 gt  amp 1  amp

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my start sh file    bin bash  nohup forever -c php artisan your command  gt  gt storage logs yourcommand log 2 gt  amp 1  amp   There is one important thing only  FIRST COMMAND MUST BE  quot nohup quot   second command must be  quot forever quot  and  quot -c quot  parameter is forever s param   quot 2 gt  amp 1  amp  quot  area is for  quot nohup quot   After running this line then you can logout from your terminal  relogin and run  quot forever restartall quot  voilaa    You can restart and you can be sure that if script halts then forever will restart it  I  lt 3 forever

[bash] Can I change the name of `nohup.out`?

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