[Fedora-Bangladesh] ls a* | wc -l , error: argument list too long

[Shams]

Dear All,

I'm giving this cmd at a script

ls a* | wc -l

and getting the error msg argument list too long. can anyone help me to
solve it without occupying any memory space.

Thanks

Shams
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