#!/bin/bash
# bash while loop

#file number to start with
COUNT=1

# total number of original files
OTOTAL=50

# loop to call up the files to process. repeatedly calls up files numbered from 001 to $OTOTAL in accending order

while [ $COUNT -le $OTOTAL ]; do

    VAR=`printf "%03d" $COUNT`

echo $VAR

let COUNT=COUNT+1

done