How to use expr on float?

Question

I know it's really stupid question, but I don't know how to do this in bash:

20 / 30 * 100

It should be 66.67 but expr is saying 0, because it doesn't support float. What command in Linux can replace expr and do this equalation?

Answer 1

As reported in the bash man page:

The shell allows arithmetic expressions to be evaluated, under certain circumstances...Evaluation is done in fixed-width integers with no check for overflow, though division by 0 is trapped and flagged as an error.

You can multiply by 100 earlier to get a better, partial result:

let j=20*100/30
echo $j

66

Or by a higher multiple of 10, and imagine the decimal place where it belongs:

let j=20*10000/30
echo $j

66666