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I had a similar requirement at work and this is what I did:
1. A script that fetches results form log file and writes the output to a file (say log_output.dat).
2. In the same script, write a line...

Like this?
#! /bin/bash
echo "Enter date: "
read date
grep -n Processed: /var/messages/datalogs | grep -n "$date"

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Try
awk '{a+=$NF}END{print a}' file