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February 6, 2013 14:53
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Return a list of most recent files in a linux directory, capped by the number of files you want returned. In this example, I capped the results at 10, but you can change 'head -10' to whatever you want. 'tail -n +2' cuts off the number of results that would show at the top of the files returned.
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| ls -l -t | tail -n +2 | head -10 |
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