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on my linux machines I want to know which file/s are edited recently by users

let say I want to search recursive under /home the most 10 files that edited recently

how to perform that with find command or other solution?

example of expected output:

27/6/2018 11:23 /home/my_data/file
27/6/2018 10:21 /home/top/oo/pp/file
27/6/2018 09:23 /home/my_data/GG/file

To list recursively do

ls -lRrt

If you want to find all the files and list them in date change order

ls -lrt `find . -type f`

There's probably 10,000 ways to do it.

Finding the newest 10 files under the current directory:

find -type f -printf "%TY-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM:%TSt%h/%fn" | sort -r | head -n 10

Optionally add | cut -f2 to strip the time information.

This uses to -printf option to find to print the modification time of the file in front of the filename separated by a tab, where the time is formatted in a way that can simply be sorted by sort. sort -r does reverse sorting to put the newest (i.e. "biggest") times at the beginning.

This falls down a bit with filenames that contain newlines. That can be worked around by ending the printf string not with n but with to null-terminate the filenames. Then add --zero-terminated to the sort options, and put | tr '' 'n' at the end to convert the null bytes back into newlines.