Shell scripting can be daunting for the beginner, but it's not as terrible as you might think. ... Bash demonstrates several programming language concepts, such as case statements and for loops.

As with every game, the hardest part is really having a good random number generator that generates truly random values. That's actually hard to affect in a shell script though, so I'm going to ...

But shell scripts are so 1980’s — if you are into some kind of retro-computing, have at it. My advice is to invest your precious brain cells elsewhere. Use ruby or python for real work and do ...