Comrade Ferret

2025-09-02 11:49:19

ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

OK can someone on #Linux explain to me why dice requires a billion haskell libraries adding up to 151MB of space and gets updates every other day when it's literally just a cli app to take random numbers and add them together?

2025-09-02 12:56:21

Comrade Ferret

ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

#!/bin/bash

count=$(echo $1 | sed -e 's/\([0-9]\)d\([0-9]\)/\1/g')
if [[ $count = "" ]]; then
count=1
fi

high=$(echo $1 | sed -e 's/\([0-9]\)d\([0-9]\)/\2/g')
if [[ $high = "" ]]; then
echo "Syntax: roll [dice_count]d[die_sides]"
echo "ie: to roll two 6-sided dice: roll 2d6"
exit
fi

rolls=()
while [[ $count > 0 ]]; do
rolls+=" $((1 + $RANDOM % $high))"
let count=$count-1 
done

total=0
for i in ${rolls[@]}; do
let total+=$i
done

echo $(tput bold)$total$(tput sgr0) "("$(echo $rolls | sed -e 's/ /+/g')")"

is that so fucking hard