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Date: 2012feb25
OS: Linux
Level: beginner

Q.  How I can find the top ten most recently changed files in a folder?

A.  Use the -t option of ls.  Then pipe it to head which will display
the top ten:

ls -lt | head

To find the oldest files:

ls -lrt | head