status - query fish runtime information

Synopsis

status status is-login status is-interactive status is-block status is-breakpoint status is-command-substitution status is-no-job-control status is-full-job-control status is-interactive-job-control status current-command status filename status basename status dirname status fish-path status function status line-number status stack-trace status job-control CONTROL_TYPE status features status test-feature FEATURE

Description

With no arguments, status displays a summary of the current login and job control status of the shell.

The following operations (subcommands) are available:

is-command-substitution, -c or --is-command-substitution
Returns 0 if fish is currently executing a command substitution.
is-block, -b or --is-block
Returns 0 if fish is currently executing a block of code.
is-breakpoint
Returns 0 if fish is currently showing a prompt in the context of a breakpoint command. See also the fish_breakpoint_prompt function.
is-interactive, -i or --is-interactive
Returns 0 if fish is interactive - that is, connected to a keyboard.
is-login, -l or --is-login
Returns 0 if fish is a login shell - that is, if fish should perform login tasks such as setting up PATH.
is-full-job-control or --is-full-job-control
Returns 0 if full job control is enabled.
is-interactive-job-control or --is-interactive-job-control
Returns 0 if interactive job control is enabled.
is-no-job-control or --is-no-job-control
Returns 0 if no job control is enabled.
current-command
Prints the name of the currently-running function or command, like the deprecated _ variable.
filename, current-filename, -f or --current-filename
Prints the filename of the currently-running script. If the current script was called via a symlink, this will return the symlink. If the current script was received by piping into source, then this will return -.
basename
Prints just the filename of the running script, without any path components before.
dirname
Prints just the path to the running script, without the actual filename itself. This can be relative to PWD (including just “.”), depending on how the script was called. This is the same as passing the filename to dirname(3). It’s useful if you want to use other files in the current script’s directory or similar.
fish-path
Prints the absolute path to the currently executing instance of fish.
function or current-function
Prints the name of the currently called function if able, when missing displays “Not a function” (or equivalent translated string).
line-number, current-line-number, -n or --current-line-number
Prints the line number of the currently running script.
stack-trace, print-stack-trace, -t or --print-stack-trace
Prints a stack trace of all function calls on the call stack.
job-control, -j or --job-control CONTROL_TYPE
Sets the job control type to CONTROL_TYPE, which can be none, full, or interactive.
features
Lists all available feature flags.
test-feature FEATURE
Returns 0 when FEATURE is enabled, 1 if it is disabled, and 2 if it is not recognized.

Notes

For backwards compatibility most subcommands can also be specified as a long or short option. For example, rather than status is-login you can type status --is-login. The flag forms are deprecated and may be removed in a future release (but not before fish 4.0).

You can only specify one subcommand per invocation even if you use the flag form of the subcommand.