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

Finding the most current file in every directory according to a pattern, e.g. the sub directories of the working directory that have name ending with "tmp" (case insensitive):

find . -iname \*tmp -type d -exec sh -c "ls -lArt {} | tail -n 1" \;