ROLL(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation ROLL(1)NAMEroll - Command line interface for dice rolls
VERSION
version 0.045
SYNOPSIS
# Evaluate these command line params
roll 3d6 2d8
echo "5d6" > f
echo "2d4+1" >> f
# Read the contents of 'f' from STDIN
roll < f
# Evaluate 1d100 and open file 'f'
roll d% f
OVERVIEW
This is a command line interface to the Games::Dice library. It takes
die rolling specifications in the form of adb[+-*/b]c.
(This specification may change a bit over time, but not radically.)
· a is optional and defaults to 1; this is number of dice to roll.
· b is the number of sides on each die. '%' is shorthand for 100.
The optional end modifies the sum of the rolls. 'b' means take the
"best" c rolls and sum them. Also '/' truncates the result to an
integer after division.
Dice specifications can be piped in, given on STDIN or as positional
parameters from the command line.
If a positional parameter matches a file name, it will be opened and
each line of the file evaluated.
AUTHORS
· Philip Newton <pne@cpan.org>
· Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 1999 by Philip Newton.
This is free software, licensed under:
The MIT (X11) License
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