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Asked: 2026-05-27T22:54:49+00:00

Is there either an existing command, or some trick or script that allows me

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Is there either an existing command, or some trick or script that allows me to show the status of the files shown in “ls”?

Something like the following:

$ git ls status #Command could be anything `lsg` is fine too, whatever.

app           contents modified
autotest      up-to-date
config        up-to-date
config.ru     staged
db            contents modified
doc           contents modified
Gemfile       modified
Gemfile.lock  modified
lib           up-to-date
log           up-to-date
public        up-to-date
Rakefile      up-to-date
README        up-to-date
script        up-to-date
spec          up-to-date
tmp           up-to-date
vendor        contents modidified
test.tmp      removed

In any way: having the git status information available in a directory listing.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Using the Git status short format information, here’s a Bash script that uses Awk and the column command to give you customized status output.

    #!/bin/bash
git status --porcelain | \
    awk 'BEGIN {FS=" "}
{
    xstat = substr($0, 1, 1);
    ystat = substr($0, 2, 1);
    f = substr($0, 4);
    ri = index(f, " -> ");
    if (ri > 0) f = substr(f, 1, ri);
    if (xstat == " " && ystat ~ "M|D") stat = "not updated";
    else if (xstat == "M" && ystat ~ " |M|D") stat = "updated in index";
    else if (xstat == "A" && ystat ~ " |M|D") stat = "added to index";
    else if (xstat == "D" && ystat ~ " |M") stat = "deleted from index";
    else if (xstat == "R" && ystat ~ " |M|D") stat = "renamed in index";
    else if (xstat == "C" && ystat ~ " |M|D") stat = "copied in index";
    else if (xstat ~ "M|A|R|C" && ystat == " ") stat = "index and work tree matches";
    else if (xstat ~ " |M|A|R|C" && ystat == "M") stat = "work tree changed since index";
    else if (xstat ~ " |M|A|R|C" && ystat == "D") stat = "deleted in work tree";
    else if (xstat == "D" && ystat == "D") stat = "unmerged, both deleted";
    else if (xstat == "A" && ystat == "U") stat = "unmerged, added by us";
    else if (xstat == "U" && ystat == "D") stat = "unmerged, deleted by them";
    else if (xstat == "U" && ystat == "A") stat = "unmerged, added by them";
    else if (xstat == "D" && ystat == "U") stat = "unmerged, deleted by us";
    else if (xstat == "A" && ystat == "A") stat = "unmerged, both added";
    else if (xstat == "U" && ystat == "U") stat = "unmerged, both modified";
    else if (xstat == "?" && ystat == "?") stat = "untracked";
    else if (xstat == "!" && ystat == "!") stat = "ignored";
    else stat = "unknown status";
    print f "   " stat;
}' | \
    column -t -s "  "

    If you create an executable git-status-ls in a directory on your PATH ($HOME/bin should be a good place), you can type git status-ls in any Git repo. Or you could create a Git alias one-liner for this. You could also implement this using Perl, Python, C or whatever language you’re most comfortable with.

    Here’s a sample output:

    B                                renamed in index
A                                untracked
dont_delete_git_pre-commit_hook  untracked

    Just realized, tabs are displaying as spaces. In the Awk script print f " " stat; and in the column -t -s " " command, there is a tab (not spaces) between the double-quotes. You could use a separator other than tab.

    Noticed an issue with the status flags handling in the above script and corrected it.

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