wordle.sh

#!/bin/bash -e
set -o pipefail; LC_COLATE=C

: "${LETTERS:=5}"
: "${ROUNDS:=7}"
: "${DICTIONARY:=/usr/share/dict/words}"

#https://www.shellhacks.com/bash-colors/
hit='\e[30;102m'; match='\e[30;103m'; miss='\e[30;107m'; reset='\e[0m'
pool=`printf '%s' {a..z}`

readlink -e "$DICTIONARY" >/dev/null

# pick first letter because uneven frequency distribution
first=${pool:(( RANDOM % ${#pool} )):1}

mapfile -t words < <( 
  ( zcat "$DICTIONARY" 2>/dev/null || cat "$DICTIONARY" ) |
      grep -xiE "^${first:?}[a-z]{$(( LETTERS - 1 ))}"
)
declare -i wc=${#words[@]}
declare -i line=$(( RANDOM % wc ))
declare -l guess='' secret=${words[$line]}
${DEBUG:+ echo $secret: $line/$wc}


function score {
  local -a pad=() matched=(); color=$reset

  # pre-mark hits with '=', then later '.' for match
  for (( i=0; i < LETTERS; i++ )); do
    c=${guess:$i:1}; k=${secret:$i:1}
    [[ "$k" == "$c" ]] && pad[$i]='=' || pad[$i]=$k
  done
  for (( i=0; i < LETTERS; i++ )); do
    c=${guess:$i:1}

    if [[ ${pad[$i]} == '=' ]]; then
      color=$hit; matched+=( "$c" )
    elif [[ "$c" == " " ]]; then
      # _hint
      color=$reset; c='_'
    elif [[ "${pad[@]}" =~ ${c:-\000} ]]; then
      # mark with '.'
      color=$match; pad=( "${pad[@]//$c/.}" ); matched+=( "$c" )
    else
      color=$miss
      [[ "${matched[@]}" =~ $c ]] || pool=${pool/$c/ }
    fi
    pool=${pool/$c/${c^^}} 
    echo -en "$color ${c^^} "
  done
  echo -e "${reset}\t\t${pool}\n"
}


#--- MAIN ---

echo "Guess the secret word ($LETTERS letters) in $ROUNDS attempts. (Type '_hint' for an assist)"
echo

for (( j=1; j <= ROUNDS; j++ )); do
  read -ep "$j/$ROUNDS: " guess

  if [[ "$guess" =~ _hint ]]; then
    offset=$(( RANDOM % LETTERS ))
    guess=`printf '%*s%*s' $((offset + 1)) "${secret:$offset:1}" $((LETTERS - offset - 1)) ' '`
  elif (( ${#guess} != LETTERS )) || ! [[ "$guess" =~ [a-z]{$LETTERS} ]]; then
    echo -e "  WARN\timproper guess"; continue
  fi
  score
  [[ "$guess" == "$secret" ]] && { echo "Congratulations!"; exit; }
done

echo "The word was '$secret'. Better luck next time!"


# dictionaries
#  [esl]='https://eslforums.com/5-letter-words/'
#  [github]='https://gist.githubusercontent.com/prichey/95db6bdef37482ba3f6eb7b4dec99101/raw/'
#  [popular]='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dolph/dictionary/master/popular.txt'
# http://www.yougowords.com/5-letters
# http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/
#  [system]=/usr/share/dict/words

#[ -s "$DICTIONARY" ] || {
#  command -v curl &>/dev/null || exit 1
#  #pic a dict, fetch and process
#}

Mathew, I am doing programming in between, so cap lock pressing and depressing are extra steps. Everywhere for that game we use capitals so as the user types in an a it should appear as A, according to my religious notion of good user interface 🙂 I am not clear from your description how to do it. You kindly show a line of code which will do this. Yes, for me a line of code is worth 100 pages of a manual 😀 I already have a function which you will do what I want but that has a few lines of code. My curiosities if there's some bash idiom that will do this compactly. Cordially, Chacko Fm mobile, often by dictation, pardon the errors.

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On Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 07:53 Matthew Patton ***@***.***> wrote: ***@***.**** commented on this gist. ------------------------------ so you want to type in the guess as lowercase and for it to echo to the screen as uppercase? what on earth for? users have capslock key for a reason. but yes you can do this, you just need to turn off echo during a tight loop read() and then echo out. But if you want to upper-case immediately whatever the user typed in, just declare -u the variable. First rule of programming is don't fk with what the user is typing in. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <https://gist.github.com/3d297d2327400c2915e55be2d6280a7a#gistcomment-4056477>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAEMC4R4XL73N5BSP7E2A63UZ7TI5ANCNFSM5NV7Y4XA> . Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS <https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1477376905?ct=notification-email&mt=8&pt=524675> or Android <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.android&referrer=utm_campaign%3Dnotification-email%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dgithub>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

just because you 'score' the user's entry as all caps is distinct and separate from overriding the keystrokes they are entering during read(). NEVER lie to the user by changing his input as he's typing it. If you want to 'score' the guess as lowercase if he used lower, and score it as upper if he used upper, then don't use declare -u or declare -l for guess.

sorry man but you're wasting time on a broken UI paradigm. The correct answer is to not do that.