Upcoming UTAustin-OSPO Training Events
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Wednesday April 22, 2026, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:FNT 1.104
Course Description:
This is a two-part course, with substantial hands-on practice in a shared computing environment. Participants will learn the basics of using UNIX from the command line. Introductory topics include manipulating text files using standard UNIX utilities, how to string utilities together, and how to output the results to files. The goal of the course is to develop some basic comfort at the command line, get a sense of what’s possible, and learn how to find help.
Prerequisites:
Students wishing to participate in the hands-on portions should bring their own laptop.
Cost:
$50 (includes both days)
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Friday April 24, 2026, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:FNT 1.104
Course Description:
This is a two-part course, with substantial hands-on practice in a shared computing environment. Participants will learn the basics of using UNIX from the command line. Introductory topics include manipulating text files using standard UNIX utilities, how to string utilities together, and how to output the results to files. The goal of the course is to develop some basic comfort at the command line, get a sense of what’s possible, and learn how to find help.
Prerequisites:
Students wishing to participate in the hands-on portions should bring their own laptop.
Cost:
$50 (includes both days)
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Wednesday April 29, 2026, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:FNT 1.104
This is a two-part course, with substantial hands-on practice in a shared computing environment. Topics will build on those in the introductory course, including more on the filesystem, the Bash shell, and text processing on the command line. The course will emphasize manipulating text using standard Linux utilities and stringing commands together using pipes. We’ll also introduce some of the powerful Linux utilities such as cut, sort, grep and awk, with the goal of continuing the climb up the steep Linux learning curve.
Prerequisites:
Introduction to Unix or equivalent experience. Students wishing to participate in the hands-on portions should bring their own laptop.
Cost:
$50 (includes both days)
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Friday May 1, 2026, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:FNT 1.104
This is a two-part course, with substantial hands-on practice in a shared computing environment. Topics will build on those in the introductory course, including more on the filesystem, the Bash shell, and text processing on the command line. The course will emphasize manipulating text using standard Linux utilities and stringing commands together using pipes. We’ll also introduce some of the powerful Linux utilities such as cut, sort, grep and awk, with the goal of continuing the climb up the steep Linux learning curve.
Prerequisites:
Introduction to Unix or equivalent experience. Students wishing to participate in the hands-on portions should bring their own laptop.
Cost:
$50 (includes both days)
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Wednesday May 6, 2026, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:FNT 1.104
This is a two-part course, with substantial hands-on experience in a shared computing environment. The course will cover advanced topics in writing Bash shell scripts, providing tips, examples and best practices for creating robust “pipeline scripts” that execute multiple processing steps. Topics include defining functions, argument processing and defaulting, error checking, effective use of utilities such as awk and grep, as well as subtleties of UNIX streams and text manipulation.
Prerequisites:
Intermediate Unix or equivalent experience. Students wishing to participate in the hands-on portions should bring their own laptop.
Cost:
$50 (includes both days)
Event Status
Scheduled
Date and time: Friday May 8, 2026, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location:FNT 1.104
This is a two-part course, with substantial hands-on experience in a shared computing environment. The course will cover advanced topics in writing Bash shell scripts, providing tips, examples and best practices for creating robust “pipeline scripts” that execute multiple processing steps. Topics include defining functions, argument processing and defaulting, error checking, effective use of utilities such as awk and grep, as well as subtleties of UNIX streams and text manipulation.
Prerequisites:
Intermediate Unix or equivalent experience. Students wishing to participate in the hands-on portions should bring their own laptop.
Cost:
$50 (includes both days)
Past Events
To access information about past events, view session recordings, and download materials including presentation slides and example code notebooks please visit https://opensource.utexas.edu/past-events or click on the following link for a searchable table with links to materials: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XelNgB7hIPIcwYzsjKJ4u99dNvxuPHR1k8NOM5o-gVg/edit?usp=sharing.