Call script from script

Question

I have a bash script A from which I'd like to call bash script B. I'd like to declare a number of paths in B, call B from A and fetch the paths..is it possible? If so, how do I achieve it? The scripts are located in the same folder.

Answer 1

Maybe it would be easier to just source the scriptB from scriptA?

. ./scriptB

This way they are run in same shell and all variables are shared.

Answer 2

There are several ways of doing this. One way is to echo the paths in scriptB and set a variable in scriptA to capture the output:

In scriptA

paths=$(./scriptB)