title: efficiently view N most recently edited files in bash
body: <p>I have a massive folder of files, <code>bigfolder</code>. I want to view the N most recently modified files. For example, N could be 10. I use <code>ls -rlta bigfolder</code> to view the most recently edited files, but this is undesirable because it takes a long time. With this method, I can filter the output to view the N most recently edited files, <code>ls -rlta bigfolder | tail -n 10</code>. Is there a faster way I can view the 10 most recently edited files?</p>