List files by last edited date

Question

I have a directory: /home/user/

How can I list every file in this directory (including those in sub directories) and order them by the date that they we

Answer 1

For zsh users, you could also use glob qualifiers (also documented on man zshexpn):

echo *(om)

Where o stands for sort order, up and m stands for last modification time.

This can be useful when used in a for loop or another command:

for file in *(^om); do
  [ -e "$file" ] || continue
  # do something with file orderer from least recently modified to last modified
done

Or chained with another glob qualifier:

last_modified_file=(*(om[1]))