run a shell script and immediately background it, however keep the ability to inspect its output

Question

How can I run a shell script and immediately background it, however keep the ability to inspect its output any time by tailing /tmp/output.txt

It would be nice if I

Answer 1

Another way is using the nohup command with & at the end of the line.

Something like this

nohup whatevercommandyouwant whateverparameters &

This will run it in the background and send its output to a nohup.log file.