Last 10 modified files...

[Doug]

On 02/24/2011 05:48 AM, Loïc Grenié wrote:
> 2011/2/24 Tony Pursell<ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>:
>> On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 09:16 +0100, Loïc Grenié wrote:
>>> 2011/2/24 Sandy Harris<sandyinchina at gmail.com>:
>>>> 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
>>> find ~ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -ltr | tail -10
>>>
>>>     (might last a long time and it might not work if you have too many
>>>    files)
>>>
>>>              Loïc
>>>
>> @ Ashim. Or you could just go Places>  Search for Files and use Select
>> more options and add Date modified more then/less than rules.
>>
>> @Loic and Sandy. I appreciate the technical answers but I feel that we
>> should also be promoting the facilities in the UI.  CLI answers don't
>> give the impression of an easy to use OS that can replace Windows.
>      This mailing list is "Ubuntu user technical support...". Moreover I
>    can only give the answers I know: I really don't know how to look
>    for the 10 newer files in a GUI (GUIs are usually limited to a single
>    directory and I'm an old timer that types a lot faster than he clicks).
>    In the end, I'm not trying to "give the impression of an easy to use
>    OS that can replace Windows", just trying to answer the question.
>
>       Sorry !
>
>           Loïc
>
Amen!

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