Re: how to get total numbers of files in a directory?

[delirium]

This code should do what you want:

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

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[flounder99]

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>]}'
1