Get last published post in Wordpress using wp-cli

Question

I'm using below wp-cli command to get latest post ID:

wp post list --order='DESC' --orderby='ID' --field='ID' | head -1

This, however is inefficient as all posts are retrieved from DB and then head limits the number of returned posts.

Is there a way to limit the number of returned posts using wp query?

Answer 1

Simply add:

--posts_per_page=1

to limit the queried items to a single item.