Tail multiple directories

Question

How do I print only the last (n) file(s) inside nested directories matching a certain pattern?

Doing

ls -l dir*/history/ | tail 

gives only the content of the last directory.

I suspect it has to do with xargs but can't really figure out how.

Answer 1

To answer your question directly, use the loop:

for d in dir*/history/; do
    ls -l "$d" | tail
done

But, for more advanced directory "filtering" (and processing) than this, find might come in handy.