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How can I get a list of files most recently updated / edited?
Last updated: 02/08/2012
On a unix / linux system run this command:

# ls -lt

This will list the files in the current directory with the most recently modified files at the top.  This is a good way to find files you edited recently if there are a lot of files in the directory.
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