Carpentry@UiO workshop: Unix Shell

Get your work done in less time and with less pain: The Unix shell helps you automate repetitive tasks and easily combine smaller tasks into larger, more powerful workflows.

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Target audience

Students, PhD students, researchers at any career stage, and technical staff. The course is open to UiO employees and external participants.

Prerequities

You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.

Preparations

  • Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux or Windows operating system
  • Before the workshop, please install a few specific software packages, as listed in the full course information below. Please note that this may require administrator rights (for UiO laptops, these can be requested from IT).
  • Participants who arrive at the workshop without having installed and checked if the software packages run, cannot participate.
  • There will be time for troubleshooting issues related to installation 30 minutes before the workshop starts.
  • Abiding the Carpentries Code of Conduct.
  • Being aware that this workshop focuses on the basics of programming in examples and exercises and is not meant for experienced programmers.

Course Information

Course Information

Instructors

Désirée Treichler, Jamie Yates Findlay, Andrea Dale Wefring, Nisrine Souai

Contact

If there are questions related to installation and testing of the software packages needed, feel free to ask us via email to contact-us@carpentry.uio.no

Registration

Sign-up Deadline: March 5th at 11:59 pm

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If you are interested in other Carpentry@UiO workshops, please visit uio.no/carpentry

Published Jan. 26, 2026 11:30 AM - Last modified Feb. 10, 2026 2:13 PM