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

bash logging nohup
David LeBauer picture David LeBauer · Dec 28, 2010 · Viewed 216.5k times · Source

When I run nohup some_command &, 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?

Answer

ismail picture ismail · Dec 28, 2010 
nohup some_command &> nohup2.out &

and voila.

Older syntax for Bash version < 4:

nohup some_command > nohup2.out 2>&1 &

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