How to search and replace footprints and symbols?

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After importing Eagle projects, I may have many symbols like
“S32 motor-yaw-eagle-import:C-EUC1210K”

or footprints like “S32 motor-yaw:SOIC127P600X175-8N”

how can I easily do a search and replace for all to KiCAD symbols / footprints?

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This Link may Help you achieve your Goal… I takes action on All Folders/Items inside/embedded the parent folder.

This Recent Post may also help, action happens on singular/specified file… Three Video’s demonstrate it…

It won’t matter what you want to change, you can change most anything, including the items you indicated…

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Nice, I did not knew everything in the files was text, this can be done in Linux as a one-line sed command.
Thank you

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Just to complete the answer with a easy solution;

In Linux, one can just do this: (find all files, and for each file use sed)

find /path/to/directory -type f -exec sed -i 's/text to be replaced/new txt/g' {} +

and check before/after with a simple grep: (checks for files with a given text)
grep -rl "find this text" /path/to/directory

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For those who don’t know how to use sed, perl, python or some other fancy advanced computer program there are always “Edit Symbol Library Links” and “Edit Symbol Fields” or “Assign Footprints” dialogs.

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Thank you - that is exactly what I was looking for ! Perfect!