Average CPU job: 4900 seconds $ awk -F: '{print $35, $37}' 1percent | awk '{a+=$2};END{print a/NR}' 4852.23 Average number of cores, per CPU second awk -F: '{print $35, $37}' 1percent | awk '{p+=$1*$2;a+=$2}; END {print p/a}' 34.9133 Average over whole dataset: awk -F: '{print $35, $37}' accounting | awk '{p+=$1*$2;a+=$2};END{print p/a}' 37.7884 CPU counts per user awk -F: '{cpu[$4]+=$37};END{for(a in cpu){printf "%.0f %s\n",cpu[a],a}}' 1percent | sort -n Everything since 2015-01-01 awk -F: '$9 >= 1420070400' accounting > full-2015 Table of (slots, CPU-seconds) awk -F: 'BEGIN{OFMT="%.0f";Slots=35;Wall=14};{t[$Slots]+=$Wall*$Slots};END{for(n in t) { print n, t[n] } }' full-2015 > slot-cpu