is it possible to `git status` only modified files?

It looks like git status -uno will show you only files that git is tracking, without showing anything else in the directory. Not exactly what you asked for, but perhaps accomplishes the same thing (getting a readable-length list of files that git tracks).

For modified files:

git status | grep modified: 

git status -s | awk '{if ($1 == "M") print $2}' 

git diff --name-only --diff-filter=M

git diff --name-only works too.

You can use

$ git status -uno 

to list only modified files.

To list the modified files use:

git ls-files -m 

If you want just the basename (no path) then you can pipe each result to the basename command using xargs, line by line:

git ls-files -m | xargs -L 1 basename 

I was looking for the same info and found following gives modified files:

git status -uno 

The problem is i have too many staged files that i don't want to commit or gitignore at the moment and i can't scroll up.

While this may not directly answer the question of listing only modified files, it may help limit the number of files that are listed.

You can pass a path to git status to limit the output to a specific folder in the repo.

For example:

git status app git status spec git status src/components 

I use this command :

$ git status -sb -uno | grep -v "^\sD\s" 

And the output looks like this :

## master...origin/master M GNUmakefile M include/mp4v2/project.h 

Update

open the .gitconfig

[user] name = ... email = ... [alias] # 👇 add below code mySt = "!f() {\ inputType=${1:-" "};\ git status -s | grep "\\ $inputType" |\ sed -e 's/ / /' ;\ }; f" 

explain: https://stackoverflow.com/a/62772985/9935654

usage

git mySt M : show modified:

git mySt M *.md : Show all *.md, which was modified.

git mySt D : deleted:

git mySt : same as the git status -s

OS: windows

The following command will display all lines containing "modified:", "renamed:" or "new file:"

git status | findstr "modified: renamed: new file:" 

If you want to specified file type: (for example *.py *.ini)

git status *.py *.ini | findstr "modified: renamed: new file:" 

If you think it’s too much trouble typing so much:

1. create a batch file (for example: st.bat)

2. write contents as following:

   @echo off :: st.bat (this line doesn't necessarily. ( just let you know the scripts name.)) git status %~1 | findstr "modified: renamed: new file:" 

3. add environment path which contains your batch file. (st.bat)

4. usage

   st.bat "*.py *.ini" 

   (note: if type > 1 then must add the semicolon)

OS: LINUX

as @Lance says you can try

git status | grep modified:

All the answers are great but Git has evolved and now provides an out-of-the-box solution for getting just the name of changed files(includes untracked)

git status --short 

If you need a script-friendly output, use the recommended --porcelain flag

git status --short --porcelain 

To list all modified files use:

git show --stat --oneline HEAD 

One alternative is to have the results on a single line via -s which can limit what is being shown.

git status -s 

Shown under windows Terminal with Powerline/Posh git.

This command is so handy in that I added it as an alias used as git stati

[alias] stati = !git status -s 

All great answers; just FEI, "git checkout " (switching to or in the same branch) appears to show only modified files.

If you want to list the modified files, you could do this:

git log -n1 --oneline --name-status | grep '^M' 

git status --short | grep '^ M'

grep will filter the output to show only lines starting with M, which represent modified files.

git status -uno is much more faster than others when the work dir has many intermediate files for it doesn't scan untracked files at all.