Show the last N modified files, recursively.

last_modified_files.sh

#!/bin/bash

count=10
filter='*.*'

if [ ! -z "$1" ]; then
    if [ "$1" == "--help" ]; then
        echo "USAGE $0 [count] [filter (e.g. *.java)]"
        exit 0
    fi
    count="$1"
fi

if [ ! -z "$2" ]; then
    filter="$2"
fi

find . -type f -name "$filter" -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail -$count | cut -f2- -d" "

echo ""
echo "Showing last $count modified files"
echo "    -> matching \"$filter\""
echo "    -> in order of oldest to newest..."