Re: find/ls most recent files

[Michael Marsh <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com>]

On Apr 4, 2005 8:02 AM, michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 07:34 -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> > find . -maxdepth 1 -f file -atime -2
> 
> must be a diff type of find to me... I'd use
>   find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -atime -2

And for a time-ordered listing:

$ ls -ltr `find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -atime -2`

or the equivalent with xargs if find returns too many files.

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