last file modified

 last file modified  
   
 # ls -lrt * |tail -l  
   
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2060 2013-01-18 02:09 pre-lock.tmpl  
 -rwxr-xr-- 1 root root 2764 2013-01-18 02:09 pre-revprop-change  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2764 2013-01-18 02:09 pre-revprop-change.tmpl  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2001 2013-01-18 02:09 pre-unlock.tmpl  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2137 2013-01-18 02:09 start-commit.tmpl  
   
 locks:  
 total 8  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 139 2013-01-18 02:09 db-logs.lock  
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 139 2013-01-18 02:09 db.lock  
   
 guess what i'm looking at.  

 this is a recursive search using stat

 # find $1 -type d -print0 | xargs -0 stat --format '%Y :%y %n' | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head