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> Have foo set an environment variable and then exec a new shell.  ¨Âèå
> foo script later can print the variable if it exists.  ¨Âåòéó
> something off the top of my head.  ¨Âîôåóôåä®  ¨Âóðá÷îó îåóèåì> though and that may be too disruptive for your needs.
>
> Bob
>
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ -n "$myuniquefoovar" ]; then
> echo "$myuniquefoovar" # or possibly printf
> exit 0
> fi
> if [ $# -ne 0 ]; then
> myuniquefoovar="$*"
> export myuniquefoovar
> exec $SHELL
> fi
> exit 0

Thanks, I feel like I've gotten a step closer, but still no cigar. I
was able to get the child shell, which is cool --and I can accept that
if need to be o get this to work. But I can't get the environment
variable transfer into the new shell.