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This code should do what you want:

perl -le 'print scalar @{[</home/a/*.txt>]}'

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Re: Re: how to get total numbers of files in a directory?
by flounder99 (Friar) on Dec 09, 2003 at 15:53 UTC
    Watch out for dirctories ending in .txt 
    $ touch temp.txt

$ mkdir dir.txt

$ perl -le 'print scalar @{[<./*.txt>]}'
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    Try this: 
    $ perl -le 'print scalar @{[grep {-f} <./*.txt>]}'
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    flounder

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