nohup VERBOSE=1 perl script.pl

Question

I have a perl script for which ENV variables can be set to direct specific outputs e.g. $debug, $verbose, $develop etc

Usually I run these from the command line

Answer 1

Set the environment variable before calling nohup, and it will be preserved when nohup exec()s (replaces itself with) perl.

$ VERBOSE=1 nohup perl myscript.pl params ...