The Waite Group's Unix System V Primer

by Mitchell Waite, Stephen Prata, Donald Martin

A hands-on introduction to using UNIX! This text provides an updated, detailed overview of the UNIX operating system. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672301946
• ISBN13: 9780672301940
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 1030 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great College Text

I use this book in my classroom for the intermediate-level CS college student. It covers detail in a conversational way, giving the Unix novice a chance at absorbing such a complex operating system. While it has it's weaknesses (not much on shell scripting), it is certainly the "bible" of Unix books.

A very useful, well written book

Although I have been using UNIX for years, and have half a shelf of O'Reilly UNIX books on various subjects, I still keep coming back to the Waite Group's UNIX V Primer. The reason being that although it is not a deep treatment of any UNIX subject, it gives you the information you need to know to actually *do* something. Typically I will use it to remind me how to do something in Sed for example. Something that I don't use that often, and just need to see how to do one simple thing. Instead of hunting around in a more complete technical book, I can go to the primer and get quick no-brainer instructions on how to do it. The examples are clear and well illustrated and the writing is excellent. Highly recommended for novices and anyone who bumps into UNIX a fair bit but isn't an avatar.