Unix Command to list Few Latest Files [closed]

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I use below UNIX command to list files in order of their creation/modification. But as the directory has hundreds of files, it take few seconds to list down. but I don't want all age old files to be listed.

ls -ltr

Please provide the command for below situations.

1. List files generated/created in last 24 hours.
2. List down 50 latest files

Please help me with Unix commands for above 2 cases.

Answer 1

50 latest files:

ls -ltr | tail -50

or

ls -lt | head -50

Edit: Files modified in last day

find . -mtime -1

You could also try

ls -lt `find . -mtime -1` | head -50

But there is a problem... if find . -mtime -1 would return nothing (no file was modified in last day) you will get the last 50 files of all the time %\

Answer 2

1. List files generated/created in last 24 hours.

Use find newer or mtime parameters:

find . -newer
find . -mtime -50

1. List down 50 latest files

Pipe through head or tail depending on the sort order you used