[ncl-talk] problem about knowing the files number

[LIU Chang]

Dear NCL,

I want to know how many files in my one dir based on NCL.

I have known that based on shell, typing  a=`ls diri -l | grep "^-" | wc -l` ​, it will echo a and a is equal to files number.
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However, when I tried to add the sentence into my ncl script, it showed that a=`, fatal:Syntax Error in block, block not executed.

It will be really appreciated if you could give me some suggestions to solve the problem.

Best regards,
Chang LIU
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