Problem with inotify-wait as daemon

I have been running inotify-wait on my ftp server in byobu to monitor a folder, move data, and send email notifications for a few months without problems. Since I started this I have added 3 more folders that I monitor and I would like to start running inotify-wait as a daemon instead of in byobu sessions. I modified my script to be easier to only require a single variable to be changed and to run as a daemon. Unfortunately it now does nothing. I was hoping someone with some experience could take a look and tell me where Ive gone wrong. #!/usr/bin/env bash user=testuser dir=/ftp/"$user"/upload/ log=/ftp/"$user"/log/"$user.log" archive=/ftp/"$user"/archive/ target=/ftp/FTPDATA/"$user"/ inotifywait -q\ -d "$dir" \ -o "$log" \ -e close_write --format %f . | while IFS= read -r file; do cp -p "$file" "$target" /scripts/"$user-notify.sh" mv "$file" "$archive""$(date +%F-%T)" done