> Howto search and replace for a pattern over all system files ?
>
try a perl-expression.
find / '!' -type d -exec perl -e "s/foo/bar/baz" '{}' ';'
this is definitely not ready-to-run, but it's a good point to start
from. look at the perl man page.
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