Question

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 1

nohup some_command &> nohup2.out &

and voila.

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Older syntax for Bash version < 4:

nohup some_command > nohup2.out 2>&1 &