nohup

Sometimes you actually want processes to run after you logout. One way to do this is to invoke a command called nohup. nohup is short for no hang-up. Say you want to search a huge disk for a file but you want to logout and get a pizza while it is searching. You could type:

nohup find /bigdisk -name file

and the results will be stored in a file called nohup.out.