No $status even though it's reported it exists

[Dispersia]

No $status even though it's reported it exists

[faho]

What this is saying is that $status is not a valid command. It is a variable.

What you want is to do something with that variable, like echo $status. There, echo is your command, and it'll print the value of the status variable.

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The reason for the message here is that $status is often used by people like if $status = 0 - which isn't valid in a shellscripting language like fish (it also would not be valid in bash, for example) - you want if test $status = 0, which is why it sends to you the conditions help page.

(other variables can be used as a command - you can do $PAGER, if $PAGER is set to "less" for instance, but $status will only ever be a number and so we changed it so it heads off that mistake at the pass, but we didn't assume that anyone would just enter variables to get their value, which is simply not how a language like this works)

[Dispersia]

got it, that makes sense thanks. And ya, I have a bad habit of just doing $? and it just says 0 is not a command, but that's just a bad process on my side