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