Prepend Number to File Name without loop BASH

#!/bin/bash
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#create 20 random files
touch $(grep -E '^[[:alpha:]]{5}$' /usr/share/dict/words|shuf |head -n20)

#this is a oneliner that will count the number of files in a directory
#and then prepend a number to the file name
#currently doesn't work in script, but copy and paste it to the shell
paste <(printf 'mv\n%.0s' {1..$(ls|wc -l)}) <(ls) <(ls|nl -n'rz' -s"_" -w3)|xargs -I {} bash -c "eval {}"