my $dir = '/home/itsme/some/dir';
chdir $dir;
my $filenum = 0;
my $dirnum = 0;
my $linknum = 0;
opendir my $dh, $dir or die $!;
foreach(readdir $dh) {
    if (-f){$filenum++}
    elsif (-l){$linknum++}
    elsif (-d){$dirnum++}
    }
	
print "You have $filenum files, $linknum links and $dirnum directories in $dir\n";
closedir $dh;