Trying to rotate logs however tee command fails to return after execution

My logs nohup.out is owned by root user while I m trying to rotate the logs using system which has privileged access using sudo I have written the below script to rotate logs. cat rotatelog.sh cp /var/www/html/nohup.out /var/www/html/nohup.out_$(date "+%Y.%b.%d-%H.%M.%S"); sudo tee /var/www/html/nohup.out; The issue is when I run rotatelog.sh it does the job but the control does not return to the command line terminal. i tried > /var/www/html/nohup.out but I get Permission denied error. How can I get the logs rotated and return to the command-line?