Two training opportunities in October

Title: The Unix Shell - an introduction to Linux and the Command Line.

Room: SAT - Science & Technology PC Lab A008

Date: Tuesday, 13/10/2026

The event itself will run from 10am - 4:15pm.

A day-long in-person course introducing the unix shell and working at the command line on Mac and Linux systems. Participants will learn how to navigate filesystems, run commands, process text files and make simple shell scripts.

This is aimed at users with limited or no experience using the unix shell, in particular those who are planning to access Lancaster University's High-End Computing (HEC) or other compute clusters,

The course will be hands-on and will use either the Ubuntu Lab VDI instance at https://mylab.lancaster.ac.uk/ (https://mylab.lancaster.ac.uk/) or the participant's own laptop. Participants will need to be either staff or a research student at Lancaster University.

Please let us know any dietary requirements for lunch

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