nohup

• Send a process to the background
• It's not like the bg/& command that ties the process to a terminal session. With nohup the command is executed like a system daemon

# Stores the execution logs at "./nohup.out"
nohup sleep 9999
nohup sleep 9999 & # also detach the nohup from stdin

# do not save logs
nohup sleep 9999 &> /dev/null &