Is there a way to redirect nohup output to a log file other than nohup.out?

GNU coreutils nohup man page indicates that you can use normal redirection:

If standard input is a terminal, redirect it from /dev/null. If standard output is a terminal, append output to 'nohup.out' if possible, '$HOME/nohup.out' otherwise. If standard error is a terminal, redirect it to standard output. To save output to FILE, use 'nohup COMMAND > FILE'.

Edit: I didn't read your link at first; you may have a different version of nohup, although this section suggests that you can still use normal redirection:

 nohup.out          The output file of the nohup execution if
                    standard  output is a terminal and if the
                    current directory is writable.

You can redirect standard output and standard error to different files:

nohup myprogram > myprogram.out 2> myprogram.err

or to the same file:

nohup myprogram > myprogram.out 2>&1

Adding Jim comment as an answer here for more visibility.

use nohup program > program.out & to write the output to program.out instead of nohup.out


nohup program &> program.out &

or

nohup program &> program.out if you don't want to run the job in the background. I use this when I'm running multiple jobs at once and I want to limit it.