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

I needed to do it too, and I found these commands. these work for me:

If you want last file by its date of creation in folder(access time) :

ls -Aru | tail -n 1  

And if you want last file that has changes in its content (modify time) :

ls -Art | tail -n 1