Maybe not nohup itself, but I often do simple background tasks + a blocking `wait` statement in a loop, for instance here: https://github.com/chollinger93/debia

Maybe not nohup itself, but I often do simple background tasks + a blocking `wait` statement in a loop, for instance here: https://github.com/chollinger93/debian-scripts/blob/master/util/create_random_files.sh#L30 https://github.com/chollinger93/debian-scripts/blob/master/u... If you don't use nohup, you can just pipe stdout and err to a different file descriptor for logs within said loop. Or, of course, script something in a language of your choice.