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

Computer Tips - How I can find the top ten most recently changed files in a folder?

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