I want to convert this script to bash but I don't know if I can.
This script is in python because I am on https://www.codecademy.com learning how to write in python. But I need this script for the game battleship in bash for a script I am writing in the program Geany.
I just started to learn how to write a script so please go easy on me.
I have tried
source /home/administrator/Desktop/Battleship.sh
bin/bash /home/administrator/Desktop/Battleship.sh
I did a Mad Lib and a script exactly like the way mentioned above.
If anyone is willing to help me (not just do it for me) that would be appreciated.

from random import randint

board = []

for x in range(0, 5):
board.append(["O"] * 5)

def print_board(board):
for row in board:
print " ".join(row)

print_board(board)

def random_row(board):
return randint(0, len(board) - 1)

def random_col(board):
return randint(0, len(board[0]) - 1)

ship_row = random_row(board)
ship_col = random_col(board)
print ship_row
print ship_col

for turn in range(4):
print "Turn", turn + 1
guess_row = int(raw_input("Guess Row: "))
guess_col = int(raw_input("Guess Col: "))

if guess_row == ship_row and guess_col == ship_col:
print "Congratulations! You sank my battleship!"
break
else:
if guess_row not in range(5) or \
guess_col not in range(5):
print "Oops, that's not even in the ocean."
elif board[guess_row][guess_col] == "X":
print( "You guessed that one already." )
else:
print "You missed my battleship!"
board[guess_row][guess_col] = "X"
if (turn == 3):
print "Game Over"
print_board(board)

You asked exactly this question yesterday as well. You received answers. So what is the purpose to asking the same question again? As far as I can see the answers provided were useful enough. But the script did not get translated magically by posting it here. Is that your problem maybe?

jlinkels

Also: "you can write 'a shell script'" in Python, or in any other language, just by prefixing your script with a #!shebang line. The user will neither know nor care that the script was written using something other than Bash's (extremely primitive ...) scripting tool.

Even though "Bash scripting" has been used to do some pretty-astonishing stuff, in my view the exercise is completely pointless: "shebang" lets you write a script using "whatever real programming language" you wish!

Interesting viewpoint.

I figure there's a higher probability that Bash, or at least a Borne shell, will be installed on any system than any other tool. That's a point. (This is not true for Windows, but nothing works on Windows unless it's written specifically for it.)

There are many times I've set out to write a script in Python or Perl and realized I could just do in in Bash. Since I do more of the latter and am more comfortable in it, Bash tends to be my choice.

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