How to copy the top 10 most recent files from one directory to another?

Question

Al my html files reside here :

/home/thinkcode/myfiles/html/

I want to move the newest 10 files to /home/thinkcode/Test

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Answer 1

cp seems to understand back-ticked commands. So you could use a command like this one to copy the 10 latest files to another folder like e.g. /test:

cp `ls -t *.htm | head -10` /test