Help with Simple Perl/Python Script

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I have the following problem, which I need done in Perl/ or Python using Unix/linux filters...

  1.             You have a very large file, named 'ColCheckMe', tab-delmited, that you are asked to process.     You are told that each line in 'ColCheckMe' has 7 columns, and that the values in the 5th column are integers.

Using Perl/python (and standard LINUX/UNIX filters), indicate how you would verify that these conditions were satisfied in 'ColCheckMe'

  1.             In the same file, you are told that each value in column 1 is unique. How would you verify that?

  2.             Write a shell function that counts the number of occurrences of the word �SpecStr� in the file 'ColCheckMe'.

Thanks a lot

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