How to compare two floating point numbers in Bash?

Question

I am trying hard to compare two floating point numbers within a bash script. I have to variables, e.g.

let num1=3.17648e-22
let num2=1.5

No

Answer 1

This script may help where I'm checking if installed grails version is greater than minimum required. Hope it helps.

#!/bin/bash                                                                                         

min=1.4                                                                                             
current=`echo $(grails --version | head -n 2 | awk '{print $NF}' | cut -c 1-3)`                         

if [ 1 -eq `echo "${current} < ${min}" | bc` ]                                                          
then                                                                                                
    echo "yo, you have older version of grails."                                                   
else                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
    echo "Hurray, you have the latest version" 
fi