how to read special characters in shell script

#!/bin/bash
#Process one file##############
read() {
     tempPoint=0
     line=1
     while [ $line -le $lineCount ]
     do    
	subPoint=`sed -n "$line"p $file | awk '{print $2}'`
        name=`sed -n "$line"p $file | awk '{print $1}'	`
        if [ -n "$name" ]
        then {
        if [ $Name = $name ]
        then
        {
        tempPoint=$subPoint
        }
        fi
        }
        fi
        line=`expr $line + 1`
    done
    if [ $tempPoint -ne 0 ]
    then
    	totalPoint=`expr $totalPoint + $tempPoint`
    fi
}
######main program###############
 
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
    echo "no arguments"
    echo
    exit 1
fi
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
    echo "no files"
    echo
    exit 1
fi
if [ $# -eq 2 ]
then
    echo "no files"
    echo
    exit 1
fi
Name=$1
shift
totalPoint=0
total=0
until [ $# -eq 0 ]
do
    if [ -f "$1" ]
    then
     {
     file=$1
     total=`expr $total + 1`
     lineCount=`wc -l < $file`
     read
    }
    fi
    shift
done
 
if [ $total -eq 0 ]
then
{
   echo "no files"
   echo
}
else
{
   echo $Name "AVG:" `expr $totalPoint / $total`
}
fi

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