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

If you want something a script can use:

git diff --cached --numstat | wc -l

If you want something human readable:

git diff --cached --stat

Answer 2

Below should cover for all cases (new, modified, deleted and even untracked), it returns a number.

(git status -s |select-string -Pattern "^\s*[A|\?|D|M]" -AllMatches).Matches.Count