Nohup only allows you to leave jobs in the background. Tools like
screen/tmux allow you to leave entire shell sessions I. The background.

On Thursday, April 17, 2014, Randall J. LeVeque <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> In src/python/clawutil/runclaw.py:
>
> > @@ -25,6 +25,17 @@ def runclaw(xclawcmd=None, outdir=None, overwrite=True, restart=False,
> >
> >      If rundir is None, all *.data is copied from current directory, if a path
> >      is given, data files are copied from there instead.
> > +
> > +    If print_git_status is True, print a summary of the git status of all
> > +    clawpack repositories in the file claw_git_status.txt in outdir.
> > +
> > +    If nohup is True, run the xclawcmd in nohup mode:  runs in background and
> > +    output goes into nohup.out, and job keeps running if user logs off.
> > +    Useful for scripts starting long jobs in batch mode.
>
> I haven't used these myself. Not sure if they are standardly installed on
> all systems the way nohup is? nohup seems fine for this purpose, is there
> any advantage to the others?
>
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