In some cases it is convenient to have a shortcut to open the newest file in a directory. Maybe the last show your dvr recorded, or the last file you bought from amazon.
For these cases I found this little bash snippet useful:
ls -tr | tail -n 1 | xargs -I FILE kde-open "FILE"
Instead of kde-open, which opens any file with the associated program, you can use any program, gnome-users might want gnome-open, people with other window managers can use xdg-open from xdg-utils. Or you can just insert mplayer, if you are only interested in music and videos.
I prefer it installed somewhere in the path, and then one can add a command-line parameter, the number of files to be played:
#!/bin/sh
ls -tr | tail -n ${1:-1} | xargs -I FF kde-open "FF"
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