Shell Programming and Scripting

# cat /Out
maths                   2            0.0          
english                2091            0.2          
history               -1            0.0           
physics                18            0.0
--------------------------------------
maths                   2            0.0          
english                2091            0.2          
history               -1            0.0           
physics                18            0.0
-------------------------------------
maths                   2            0.0          
english                2091            0.2          
history               -1            0.0           
physics                18            0.0

we=`awk '{print $2}'  /Out |grep '[0-9]'|awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}'`

awk '{print $2}' /Out | grep '[0-9]' | awk '{RS="----"} {sum+=$1} END {print sum}'

while read subject col2 col3
do
  case $subject in 
    --*) printf "%d\n" "$total"
         # Here some further processing with $total
         # ...
         # reset counter
         total=0 ;;
      *) total=$(( total + col2 ))
  esac
done < file
printf "%d\n" "$total"

# awk '{print $2}' /out | grep '[0-9]' | awk '{RS="----"} {sum+=$1} END {print sum}'
2094

awk '{s+=$2} /----/ {print s; s=0}'

maths                   2            0.0          
english                2091            0.2          
history               -1            0.0           
physics                18            0.0
--------------------------------------
maths                   2            0.0          
english                2091            0.2          
history               -1            0.0           
physics                18            0.0
-------------------------------------
maths                   2            0.0          
english                2091            0.2          
history               -1            0.0           
physics                18            0.0

awk '/---/{if (f==0) f=1; else f=0} f{s+=$2} END {print s}'
2110

Code:
  maths                   2            0.0           english                2091            0.2           history               -1            0.0            physics                18            0.0 -------------------------------------- maths                   2            0.0           english                2091            0.2           history               -1            0.0            physics                18            0.0 ------------------------------------- maths                   2            0.0           english                2091            0.2           history               -1            0.0            physics                18            0.0
-----------------------------------------
maths                   2            0.0           english                2091            0.2           history               -1            0.0            physics                18            0.0
------------------------------------------

cat New | awk '{print $2}' > trick
lineCnt=`cat trick | wc -l`
echo "The total number of lines is $lineCnt"
line=1
while [[ $line -le $lineCnt ]] && read LINE; do
    if [[ $LINE = "-----" ]]; then
        line=$((line+1))
        echo "The previous total is $total"
        total=0
    else
    #total=$LINE
    total=$((total+LINE))
    fi
done < trick

./DataCompare.sh
The total number of lines is       19
The previous total is
./DataCompare.sh[14]: ------: 0403-053 Expression is not complete; more tokens expected.