How to list recent N files in bash shell?

Question

How to list most recently modified max N (such as 5) files in bash?

I used

ls -alt 

or

find -mtime 0

to show the recently files but I don't know how to limit the result into 5 records. Maybe find or some other command can be followed in command pipe?

Answer 1

You can use head or tail to limit the number oflines in a pipie:

ls -latr | tail -n5