Can I force nohup output to the screen instead of a file?

Question

When I run a script with nohup, the output is forced to the out.log file by default; is there a way to force the output to the screen instead of the file? I need to be able to see when my script gives me a "process started" message, and I don't want to clog up the system with log files.

Answer 1

That would defeat the purpose of nohup, use tail -f out.log instead.

Answer 2

If you run bash, you can put it into the background, and then use disown to have it not shut down when bash closes. So your output is to the terminal, but you can close the terminal and still have your app run.