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Old 03-02-2006, 09:41 AM   #1
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truncating output of ls command

I'm running ls -lt to sort by time. but this directory had lots of files, I want to see only the first 10 results of the output. is there a way I can do this?

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Old 03-02-2006, 09:46 AM   #2
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ls -lt | head
head does 10 lines by default, you can specify a number as an option though
 
Old 03-02-2006, 10:01 AM   #3
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