nohup does not run process in background

Question

I run

nohup bash -c "while [ true ]; do echo test; done"

from PuTTy SSH client but after this process is not runned in background instead nohup keeps to be foreground process in shell.

SW version: nohup (GNU coreutils) 8.5

Answer 1

nohup bash -c "while [ true ]; do echo test; done" &

Nohup provides you immunity to hangup signals. But it does not automatically set the process to background.

It's the & at the end of the command that causes it to run in the background.