Get most recent file in a directory on Linux

Question

Looking for a command that will return the single most recent file in a directory.

Not seeing a limit parameter to ls...

Answer 1

With only Bash builtins, closely following BashFAQ/003:

shopt -s nullglob

for f in * .*; do
    [[ -d $f ]] && continue
    [[ $f -nt $latest ]] && latest=$f
done

printf '%s\n' "$latest"