diff --git a/scripts/check_whitespace.sh b/scripts/check_whitespace.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..bd136d86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/check_whitespace.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Script to check whitespace in Klipper source code.
+
+# Find SRCDIR from the pathname of this script
+SRCDIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )"/.. && pwd )"
+cd ${SRCDIR}
+
+# Run whitespace tool on all source files
+WS_DIRS="config/ docs/ klippy/ scripts/ src/ test/"
+WS_EXCLUDE="-path scripts/kconfig -prune"
+WS_FILES="-o -iname '*.[csh]' -o -name '*.py' -o -name '*.sh'"
+WS_FILES="$WS_FILES -o -name '*.md' -o -name '*.cfg'"
+WS_FILES="$WS_FILES -o -name '*.test' -o -name '*.config'"
+WS_FILES="$WS_FILES -o -iname '*.lds' -o -iname 'Makefile' -o -iname 'Kconfig'"
+eval find $WS_DIRS $WS_EXCLUDE $WS_FILES | xargs ./scripts/check_whitespace.py
diff --git a/scripts/travis-build.sh b/scripts/travis-build.sh
index 1f82b3f2..2cd96631 100755
--- a/scripts/travis-build.sh
+++ b/scripts/travis-build.sh
@@ -35,14 +35,8 @@ finish_test()
 # Check for whitespace errors
 ######################################################################
 
-WS_DIRS="config/ docs/ klippy/ scripts/ src/ test/"
-WS_EXCLUDE="-path scripts/kconfig -prune"
-WS_FILES="-o -iname '*.[csh]' -o -name '*.py' -o -name '*.sh'"
-WS_FILES="$WS_FILES -o -name '*.md' -o -name '*.cfg'"
-WS_FILES="$WS_FILES -o -name '*.test' -o -name '*.config'"
-WS_FILES="$WS_FILES -o -iname '*.lds' -o -iname 'Makefile' -o -iname 'Kconfig'"
 start_test check_whitespace "Check whitespace"
-eval find $WS_DIRS $WS_EXCLUDE $WS_FILES | xargs ./scripts/check_whitespace.py
+./scripts/check_whitespace.sh
 finish_test check_whitespace "Check whitespace"