How to copy the top 10 most recent files from one directory to another?

cp seems to understand back-ticked commands. So you could use a command like this one to copy the 10 latest files to another folder like e.g. /test:

cp `ls -t *.htm | head -10` /test

ls -lt *.htm | head -10 | awk '{print "cp " $9 " ../Test/"$9}' | sh