Please help me achieve Streamlined Counting

[Patrick Ware_1]

Wait, I understand..

[Patrick Ware_1]

And this to directly address the issue:

#printf "%02x0000\n" 10
0a0000

[Dennis Handly]

>but how would I get the output in hexadecimal?

A real shell will allow you to print in hex with:
$ typeset -i16 CURRENT=20; echo $CURRENT
16#14