Question

I’m looking for a single line shell script or unix command to find the newest 500 files in a directory tree. Major constraints are it should be POSIX compliant and the directory can have tons of files.

Answer 1

I found from the below link a perl script which helped:

find . -type f -print | perl -l -ne ' $_{$_} = -M; END {  $,="\n";   print sort {$_{$b} <=> $_{$a}} keys %_   }' | head -n 500

How to recursively find and list the latest modified files in a directory with subdirectories and times?

Any more comments most welcome.Thanks all.