Nohup command

I'm trying to run a compress script in the background, but I even though the script is running in the background I get "Sending nohup output to nohup.out." and the screen just stays there. How can I make the script run in background and make my command prompt come back.

I was using:
nohup <compress script> 2>&1

Hi.

You need to add & to run nohup in the background:

nohup <compress script> 2>&1 &

Thank you sir.