Is this right way of doing float to integer in bash, Or is there any other method ?flotToint() {    printf %.0f\n $@}
Bash: Float to Integer
bash;floating point
bashIn bash, that's probably as good as it gets. That uses a shell builtin. If you need the result in a variable, you could use command substitution, or the bash specific:printf -v int %.0f $floatYou could do:float=1.23int=${float%.*}But that would remove the fractional part instead of giving you the nearest integer and that wouldn't work for values of $float like 1.2e9 or .12 for instance.Also note the possible limitations due to the internal representation of floats:$ printf '%.0f\n' 1e50100000000000000007629769841091887003294964970946560You do get an integer, but chances are that you won't be able to use that integer anywhere.Also, as noted by @BinaryZebra, in several printf implementations (bash, ksh93, yash, not GNU, zsh, dash), it is affected by the locale (the decimal separator which can be . or ,).So, if your floats are always expressed with the period as the decimal separator and you want it to be treated as such by printf regardless of the locale of the user invoking your script, you'd need to fix the locale to C:LC_ALL=C printf '%.0f' $floatWith yash, you can also do:printf '%.0f' $(($float))for the content of $float to be converted to the format in the current locale.POSIXprintf %.0f\n 1.1is not POSIX as %f is not required to be supported by POSIX.POSIXly, you can do:f2i() {  awk 'BEGIN{for (i=1; i<ARGC;i++)   printf %.0f\n, ARGV[i]}' $@}That one is not affected by the locale (the comma cannot be a decimal separator in awk since it's already a special character in the syntax there (print 1,2, same as print 1, 2 to pass two arguments to print)zshIn zsh (which supports floating point arithmetic (decimal separator is always the period)), you have the rint() math function to give you the nearest integer as a float (like in C) and int() to give you an integer from a float (like in awk). So you can do:$ zmodload zsh/mathfunc$ i=$((int(rint(1.234e2))))$ echo $i123Or:$ integer i=$((rint(5.678e2)))$ echo $i568However note that while doubles can represent very large numbers, integers are much more limited.$ printf '%.0f\n' 1e123999999999999999977709969731404129670057984297594921577392083322662491290889839886077866558841507631684757522070951350501376$ echo $((int(1e123)))-9223372036854775808ksh93ksh93 was the first Bourne-like shell to support floating point arithmetic. ksh93 optimises command substitution by not using a pipe or forking when the commands are only builtin commands. Soi=$(printf '%.0f' $f)doesn't fork.You can also do:i=$((rint(f)))But beware of:$ echo $((rint(1e18)))1000000000000000000$ echo $((rint(1e19)))1e+19You could also do:integer i=$((rint(f)))But like for zsh:$ integer i=1e18$ echo $i1000000000000000000$ integer i=1e19$ echo $i-9223372036854775808Beware that ksh93 floating point arithmetic honour the decimal separator setting in the locale (even though , is otherwise a math operator ($((1,2)) would be 6/5 in a French/German... locale, and the same as $((1, 2)), that is 2 in an English locale).yashyash also supports floating point arithmetic but doesn't have math functions like ksh93/zsh's rint(). You can convert a number to integer though by using the binary or operator for instance (also works in zsh but not in ksh93). Note however that it truncates the decimal part, it doesn't give you the nearest integer:$ echo $((0.237e2 | 0))23$ echo $((1e19))-9223372036854775808yash honours the locale's decimal separator on output, but not for the floating point literal constants in its arithmetic expressions, which can cause surprises:$ LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 ./yash -c 'a=$((1e-2)); echo $(($a + 1))'./yash: arithmetic: `,' is not a valid number or operatorIt's good in a way in that you can use floating point constants in your scripts that use the period and not have to worry that it will stop working in other locales, but still be able to deal with the numbers as expressed by the user as long as you remember to do:var=$((10.3)) # and not var=10.3... $((a + 0.1)) # and not $(($a + 0.1)).printf '%.0f\n' $((10.3)) # and not printf '%.0f\n' 10.3