Great little perl snippet to let you know the number of files and directories in the current directory. Run from the command line.
ls -l |perl -e ‘while(<>){$h{substr($_,0,1)}+=1;} END {foreach(keys %h){print “$_ $h{$_}\n”;}}’

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