This is friggin sweet! Thank you both. OP for the script, and Saint for helping me pull my head out of my arse.

Nokia-N900-42-11:/home/user/MyDocs# perl photo.pl
(00000/100 - 100 to go)
(00001/100 - 99 to go)
(00002/100 - 98 to go)
(00003/100 - 97 to go)
(00004/100 - 96 to go)
(00005/100 - 95 to go)
^C
Nokia-N900-42-11:/home/user/MyDocs#