Shell Programming and Scripting

In the game of “Unique”, multiple players privately choose an integer. They then reveal
their choice. The winner is the player who chose the smallest unique number. The
game is considered a draw if no unique integer was chosen.
You would write a program that simulate such a game according to the followings
1. The parent process fork player (child) processes (up to maximum of 10
players). It then waits for each of the child processes to return an integer.
2. The players (child processes) will randomly pick an integer between 1 to 5, and
return the choices to the parent.
3. Parent process determines the winner based on the choice returned by the
players (child processes). Parent process then print out the winner’s PID and
inform all child processes to terminate, before it terminates. If it is a draw, parent
process shall inform all the child processes (players) to choose another integer.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 as many times as required until a winner can be
determined.

Example of output:

Code:

$ ./game 5
Game starts with 5 players
Player 3312 choose 4
Player 3314 choose 3
Player 3313 choose 2
Player 3315 choose 1
Player 3316 choose 5
Player 3315 win!

Please help me, to write a code because I am totally new in shell programming

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