I’ve found two easy ways to round up «ceiling» float numbers with bash.

Simply add «0.5» to your floating number and use printf:

myfloating=$(echo "14.1129312938+0.5" | bc )
printf '%0.f' $myfloating
15

Or use awk:

$myfloating=14.1
echo "$myfloating" | awk '{print ($0-int($0)>0)?int($0)+1:int($0)}
15