first two results from ls command first two results from ls command linux linux

first two results from ls command


linux search limit ls

You can pipe it into head:

ls -l -t | head -3

Will give you top 3 lines (2 files and the total).

This will just give you the first 2 lines of files, skipping the size line:

ls -l -t | tail -n +2 | head -2

tail strips the first line, then head outputs the next 2 lines.

linux search limit ls

To avoid dealing with the top output line you can reverse the sort and get the last two lines

ls -ltr | tail -2

This is pretty safe, but depending what you'll do with those two file entries after you find them, you should read Parsing ls on the problems with using ls to get files and file information.

linux search limit ls

Or you could try just this

ls -1 -t | head -2

The -1 switch skips the title line.

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