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Goes like this:
git status | grep modified: | awk 'BEGIN {FS=\"[ \\t]+modified:[ \\t]+\";print \"Change summary\\n\";} {print \"* \" $2 \"\\t\\n\";}'
<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sample output:
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

Change summary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* include\/Application.hpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* include\/fengine.hpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* nginx.sh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* samples\/if.ftx<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/compiling\/Compiler.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/compiling\/Compiling.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Alt.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/BuiltInTag.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Case.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/CodeGenerator.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Default.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/ElIf.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Else.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Footer.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Foreach.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Header.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/If.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Item.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Link.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/List.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Placeholder.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Row.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Separator.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Switch.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Table.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/When.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/http\/HttpRequest.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/http\/HttpResponse.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/parser\/Print.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/parser\/TemplateDeclaration.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/parser\/TemplateDeclaration.hpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/pch.hpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/settings\/ConfigFile.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/settings\/ConfigSettings.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/templates\/Application.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/templates\/CustomTag.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/templates\/Lambda.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/templates\/Template.cpp<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The other one sorting according to filename<\/a>
git status | \\
grep modified: | \\
awk 'BEGIN {FS=\"[ \\t]+modified:[ \\t]+\"} {split($2, path, \"\/\"); rev_str = \"\"; path_len = length(path); for (i = 0; i < path_len; i++) rev_str = rev_str path[path_len - i]; files[rev_str] = $2; } END {for (f in files) print f \"\\t\" files[f];}' | \\
sort -f | \\
awk 'BEGIN { FS=\"\\t+\"; print \"Change Summary\\n\"; } {print \"* \" $2 \"\\n\";}'
<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Output similar to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change Summary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* include\/f\/Default.hpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Alt.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* include\/f\/Alt.hpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/templates\/Application.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Case.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* include\/f\/Case.hpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/compiling\/Compiling.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* include\/Compiling.hpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/templates\/CustomTag.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* include\/CustomTag.hpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* src\/fEngine\/f\/Default.cpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One more capturing other modification statuses as well<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Since previous versions did not capture other modification statuses (renamed, new etc.).

git status | \\
grep -E \"(modified|new file|copied|renamed):\" | \\
awk 'BEGIN {FS=\"[ \\t]+(modified|new file|copied|renamed):[ \\t]+\"} {split($2, path, \"\/\"); rev_str = \"\"; path_len = length(path); for (i = 0; i < path_len; i++) rev_str = rev_str path[path_len - i]; files[rev_str] = $2; } END {for (f in files) print f \"\\t\" files[f];}' | \\
sort -f | \\
awk 'BEGIN { FS=\"\\t+\"; print \"Change Summary\\n\"; } {print \"* \" $2 \"\\n\";}'<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goes like this:git status | grep modified: | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”[ \\t]+modified:[ \\t]+”;print “Change summary\\n”;} {print “* ” $2 “\\t\\n”;}’ Sample output: Change summary * include\/Application.hpp * include\/fengine.hpp * nginx.sh * samples\/if.ftx * src\/fEngine\/compiling\/Compiler.cpp * src\/fEngine\/compiling\/Compiling.cpp * src\/fEngine\/f\/Alt.cpp * src\/fEngine\/f\/BuiltInTag.cpp * src\/fEngine\/f\/Case.cpp * src\/fEngine\/f\/CodeGenerator.cpp * src\/fEngine\/f\/Default.cpp * src\/fEngine\/f\/ElIf.cpp * src\/fEngine\/f\/Else.cpp * src\/fEngine\/f\/Footer.cpp * src\/fEngine\/f\/Foreach.cpp * […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-git"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codenicer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}