Linux: Most recent file in a directory

Question

Looking for a command that will return the single most recent file in a directory.

Not seeing a limit parameter to ls...

Answer 1

ls -Art | tail -n 1

Not very elegant, but it works.

Answer 2

ls -c|head -n1

Answer 3

ls -lAtr | tail -1

The other solutions do not include files that start with '.'.

This command will also include '.' and '..', which may or may not be what you want:

ls -latr | tail -1