Does a parent bash script remember the cd history from a child bash script? Example: mainscript.sh cd /mnt/something ./buildscripts/000-script.sh 000-script.sh cd /mnt/otherthing mkdir something exit

Yes the executed process will **not** change the working directory of the parent process.

Example:

* caller.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Caller 1 " ; pwd
./callee.sh
echo -n "Caller 2 " ; pwd


* callee.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Callee 1 " ; pwd
cd /tmp
echo -n "Callee 2 " ; pwd
exit





Calling `caller.sh` will produce


Caller 1 /Users/corti/tmp
Callee 1 /Users/corti/tmp
Callee 2 /tmp
Caller 2 /Users/corti/tmp


As you see when printing `Caller 2` the parent process has still the same working directory