Bash Multiplying Decimal to int

Question

I read price from user input. When i multiply the input with int like this

T=\"$((PRICE*QTY))\"|bc; gives line 272: 12.

Answer 1

You can use mul=0.8 exp=200 texp=awk -vp=$mul -vq=$exp 'BEGIN{printf "%.2f" ,p * q}'

Hope this is going to work.