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up vote 2 down vote favorite I am trying to figure out a way to run a shell script B from script A, set or export a variable in script B, and be able to store that value in script A after script B finishes and its sub-shell returns. I'm not trying to source script B. I only want 1 specific variable. I can add stuff to script A, but I don't want any variables possibly set in script B to overwrite anything in script A besides what I am specifically trying to capture. I'm sure there are some ugly ways, like writing out all the variables I care about in A to a file, source script B, then read everything back in from the file and restore the variables in A, besides the variable set in B that I want. I'm looking for a relatively clean and straightforward way, if one exists.