Basic script to sync a local project with a remote server

sync-with-remote.bash

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -euEo pipefail
set -x  # show every command being executed

##### Constants
remote_path_prefix="nesaean:/project/ali"  # Remote ssh server is set in my ~/.ssh/config
watcher_match_regex=".*\.(cu|cc|hh|bash|md|c|h|inc)"  # Only watch for file paths matching regex

##### Process argv
src_path="$(realpath $2)"
gitignore_path="$(realpath $1)"

##### Watch src_path directory for events
inotifywait -qmre modify,create,move "${src_path}" --format '%w%f%0' \
            --no-newline --includei "${watcher_match_regex}" |\
    while IFS= read -r -d '' file
    do
        # Copy the file that was just changed
        # echo "${file}"
        remote_path_postfix="$(echo ${file} | cut -d/ -f-1,5-)"
        dst_path="${remote_path_prefix}${remote_path_postfix}"
        rsync -urvPz --exclude-from="${gitignore_path}" "${file}" "${dst_path}" # This doesn't do mkdir on remote
    done