Getting sudo and nohup to work together

Question

Linux newbie here.

I have a perl script which takes two command line inputs. I tried to run it in the background but this is what I got:

[~user]$ nohup s         


        

Answer 1

The solution is to use the -b flag for sudo to run the command in the background:

$ sudo -b ./ascii_loader_script.pl 20070502 ctm_20070502.csv

You should only use nohup if you want the program to continue even after you close your current terminal session