Terminal command to find most recently opened files

Hello,
I have a terminal command (bash) that will find the last opened file (singular) from a given directory. "$(ls -t | head -n1)"
I want to be able to search for multiple "last opened" files, say 20; I also want to be able to search either all user files, or at least direct the command to search within subfolders of a top level folder.
Can anyone help. I'd appreciate it! Thanks.

This will find all files last used today. Reference. File Meta Data attributes. Curious about a file … mdls filename.
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