bash and nohup with infinite loop

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If you have tried to convert a bash script to daemon (which is pretty common use case) this post might be of little extra help to you!

Nohup doesn't by default like for loop in your script; take it or leave it that's the truth in my experience. Therefore something like (lets name this script test.sh):

#!/bin/bash

for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
do
#your stuff
done
exit

running the above script will cause you hangups using nohup i.e. the following will likely not run:
nohup sh test.sh &

The way around this is dumping your for loop output to a file therefore
instead of the above contents for the shell script use:

#!/bin/bash

for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
do
#your stuff
done >  out.log #or whatever you want to name this file
exit


This will have no issues running using nohup and you can make your script run as a daemon.

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