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Kindly tell me that is it necessary to use “expr” keyword.
EG:-
echo `expr a*b`
And where we can simply handle arithmetic expressions using simple arithmetic operators.
EG:-
echo a*b
Thanks in advance.
The second form will almost surely never do what you want. In Bash, you have a built-in numeric expression handler, though: