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Some shells won't actually quit after backgrounding something, they'll wait for background jobs. To tell it to give up and leave processes behind, you must disown them first.

Shells which don't...

You don't have to use nohup, by-the-by. It only does things that your script can do by itself. So you could do it all on one script still perhaps:

#!/bin/ksh

some_foreground_stuff

echo...