Last 10 modified files...

[Sandy Harris]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Ashim Kapoor <ashimkapoor at gmail.com> wrote:

> is there a way to see the last 10 modified files on my computer

Have a look at the man page for find(1).  That will at least let you
find everything named *.txt that was saved in a certain time interval.

You might also try a pipeline, joining commands with | symbol so
the output of one becomes input to the the next. ls -lR should
give a long list (R is recursive, l is long) of all your files, pipe that
to sort(1) with the right options (need a man page again) to sort by
access time, then tail(1) to get only most recent files.