git count files in the staged index

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to easily count the files in my uncommitted index.

I\'ve tried:

git status | grep \'#\' | wc -l

but there

Answer 1

Try git status -s:

git status -s | egrep "^M" | wc -l

M directly after start-of-line (^) indicates a staged file. ^ M, with a space, would be an unstaged but changed file.