To illustrate my issue and questions consider two scripts.

Script1.sh

#!/bin/sh
test=1
echo $test

Script2.sh

#!/bin/sh
$(Script1.sh)

When I run Script1.sh from the command line directly via ./Script1.sh it produces the desired output.

1

However when I run Script2.sh which calls Script1.sh, instead I get the following error message:

Script2.sh: line 1: 1: command not found

It thinks that the integer 1 is a command for some odd reason?

I found a cheap work around which is to set a variable from the first script and pass it to the second script as a parameter but I would like to understand why this is failing.

Also, when I changed my variables value from 1 to "some text", I would expect that my echo would print "some text" to the screen. But when I call Script2.sh (which ultimately just calls Script1.sh) it doesn't print the echo to the screen. Why is that, and how do I resolve it so I can see the echo output the same as if I would have called Script1.sh directly?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.