Looks at the most efficient way to add up the column of data based off of the rows.
Random data
Name-Number-ID
Sarah-2.0-15
Bob-6.3-15
Sally-1.0-10
James-1.0-10
Scotty-10.7-15
So I would select all those who have ID = 15 and then add up total number
read - p "Enter ID number" Num
cut -d "-" -f 2-3 file.txt > temp.txt
awk -F "-" '/' $Num '/ {hour += $2} END {Print "Total is: " %.2f\n, number}' temp.txt
Not sure on the syntax or if hour+= should be $2 or $3:wall: