Getting a recursive list of files sorted by last modified date in Linux

Here’s a quick way to get a recursive list of files, sorted in descending order by the last modified date, from any folder in *nix:

find . -type f -printf "%T@ %p\0" | sort -zk1nr | xargs -0 printf "%s\n"

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