List Files by Updated

I'm currently working on an app that forwards logging around to various locations on the Linux server. It's a bit tricky for me to figure out where any action I take in the browser is being logged. I need those logs!

A nice way to figure out where the logging is happening is to narrow it down to one directory (say, /var/log/) then ls that directory, ordering by most recently updated. The items at the top of the list have been recently updated, and thus probably contain valuable loggings!

$ ls -lt

I'm throwing on the -l flag for more detail. If there are lot of logs, filter it down with head:

$ ls -lt | head

Thanks for the idea, Kori!

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