How can I find the oldest file in a directory tree

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/552600/h...

Answer 1 links:
[How can I find the latest (newest, earliest, oldest) file in a directory? – Greg's Wiki]: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/003

Answer 2 links:
[find]: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?fin...
[grep]: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?gre...
[sed]: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?sed
[sort]: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?sor...
[stat]: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?sta...

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