List the content of the last 5 hidden directories

Question

I was asked to list the content of the last 5 hidden directories in the current working directory with a single command. I thought something like this would do the job:

ls -a -1 | grep "^\." | tail -n 5 | ls

But it just lists the names of the last five directories.. how do I list the content?

Answer 1

ls -a -1 | grep "^\." | tail -n 5 | xargs ls