Can I change the name of `nohup.out`?

Question

nohup some_command &> nohup2.out &

and voila.

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Older syntax for Bash version < 4:

nohup some_command > nohup2.out 2>&1 &

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 &. Instead, I simply tried with

nohup some_command > nohup2.out&

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.

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.

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&. So also one could do the following:

$ nohup something&
$ mv nohup.out nohup2.out
$ nohup something2&

Now something adds lines to nohup2.out and something2 to nohup.out.

my start.sh file:

#/bin/bash

nohup forever -c php artisan your:command >>storage/logs/yourcommand.log 2>&1 &

There is one important thing only. FIRST COMMAND MUST BE "nohup", second command must be "forever" and "-c" parameter is forever's param, "2>&1 &" area is for "nohup". After running this line then you can logout from your terminal, relogin and run "forever restartall" voilaa... You can restart and you can be sure that if script halts then forever will restart it.

I <3 forever