website/content/blog/launchappsthroughterminal.md

title	date	draft	tags
Launch Apps through the Terminal	2020-09-26T21:48:09-04:00	false

Normally when you launch an application through the terminal, the standard output appears, and closing the terminal closes the application. The nohup command allows applications to run regardless of any hangups sent. Combine that with making it a background task, and you have a quick and easy way to launch applications through the terminal.

nohup application > /dev/null &