There are a lot of Unix/Lunix scripting tools out in the wild. Microsoft is trying to bring some sanity to the world.
Sanity? I'd call it hegemony. If they'd simply port the commands to Linux, bash would be all we'd need. You can pretty much do anything with Bash.
Here's a bash script that will play a round of Bunco...
#!/bin/bash rolldie() { local result=$1 rolled=$(( ( $RANDOM % 6 ) + 1 )) eval $result=$rolled } BuncoRound() { # roll, display, and score a round of bunco! # round is specified when invoked, score added to totalscore local score=0 ; local round=$1 ; local hidescore=0 rolldie die1 ; rolldie die2 ; rolldie die3 echo Round $round. You rolled: $die1 $die2 $die3 if [ $die1 -eq $die2 ] && [ $die2 -eq $die3 ] ; then if [ $die1 -eq $round ] ; then echo " BUNCO! You score 21!" score=21 hidescore=1 else echo " Mini Bunco! You score 5!" score=5 hidescore=1 fi else if [ $die1 -eq $round ] ; then score=1 fi if [ $die2 -eq $round ] ; then score=$(( $score + 1 )) fi if [ $die3 -eq $round ] ; then score=$(( $score + 1 )) fi fi if [ $hidescore -eq 0 ] ; then echo " score this round: $score" fi totalscore=$(( $totalscore + $score )) } for round in {1..6} ; do BuncoRound $round done echo "Total Score: $totalscore"
For example:
$ bunco Round 1. You rolled: 2 4 1 score this round: 1 Round 2. You rolled: 6 1 6 score this round: 0 Round 3. You rolled: 2 3 2 score this round: 1 Round 4. You rolled: 4 1 5 score this round: 1 Round 5. You rolled: 3 3 3 Mini Bunco! You score 5! Round 6. You rolled: 1 5 3 score this round: 0 Total Score: 8