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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-07-13 09:38:04 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-07-13 09:38:04 +0000
commitdb425e487a03ce103b44bb7489438ff305e2d842 (patch)
tree2812803a2d6569a1e7139b812aea8538b9244447 /doc/coreutils.texi
parentf2176e82adfba5650efb086b79038b848991e0fd (diff)
downloadcoreutils-db425e487a03ce103b44bb7489438ff305e2d842.tar.xz
(nohup invocation): Tell what happens when stdout is not a terminal.
Based on a suggestion from Steven Mocking.
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@@ -11267,6 +11267,8 @@ If standard output is a terminal, it is redirected so that it is appended
to the file @file{nohup.out}; if that cannot be written to, it is appended
to the file @file{$HOME/nohup.out}. If that cannot be written to, the
command is not run.
+If standard output is not a terminal, then the standard output of
+@var{command} will be the same as that of @command{nohup}.
If @command{nohup} creates either @file{nohup.out} or
@file{$HOME/nohup.out}, it creates it with no ``group'' or ``other''