Forking might be easier to debug.. but I think I might have missed some of the functionality in your script.. something like (totally untested): (while true

Forking might be easier to debug.. but I think I might have missed some of the functionality in your script.. something like (totally untested): (while true do inotifywait \ --exclude '.*\.sw.' \ --recursive \ --event close_write \ --event delete \ --event moved_to \ --event moved_from \ dir1/ git push sleep 0.1 done ) 2>&1 >/var/log/push_log.log & (while true do cat << 'EOF' | ssh remotebox inotifywait \ --exclude '.*\.sw.' \ --recursive \ --event close_write \ --event delete \ --event moved_to \ --event moved_from \ dir1/ git push #?? sleep 0.1 EOF # (second EOF cannot be indented) done ) 2>&1 >/var/log/pull_log.log & echo "Kicked off pull and push processes." wait