Hi ALex, On 11/16/20 8:42 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > The script can be used this way: > > git commit -sm "$(./scripts/modified_pages.sh): Short commit msg" > > And then maybe --amend and add a longer message. > > This is especially useful for changes to many pages at once, > usually when running a script to apply some global changes. > > Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > scripts/modified_pages.sh | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) > create mode 100755 scripts/modified_pages.sh > > diff --git a/scripts/modified_pages.sh b/scripts/modified_pages.sh > new file mode 100755 > index 000000000..f6c4a6cea > --- /dev/null > +++ b/scripts/modified_pages.sh > @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ > +#!/bin/bash > + > +## SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only > +######################################################################## > +## > +## (C) Copyright 2020, Alejandro Colomar > +## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > +## modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License > +## as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2. > +## > +## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > +## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > +## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > +## GNU General Public License for more details > +## (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html). > +## > +######################################################################## > +## > +## The output of this script is a > +## list of all files with changes staged for commit > +## (basename only if the files are within "man?/"), > +## separated by ", ". > +## Usage: > +## git commit -m "$(./scripts/modified_pages.sh): Short message here" > +## > + > + > +git status \ > +|sed "/Changes not staged for commit:/q" \ > +|grep -E "^\s*(modified|deleted|new file):" \ > +|sed "s/^.*:\s*/, /" \ > +|sed "s%man[1-9]/%%" \ > +|tr -d '\n' \ > +|sed "s/^, //" Thanks. Patch applied! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/