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Help on commands/script needed.

In a website of 1.GB+ with several hundred thousand files, I need to
interrogate all files to replace a single string like "oldone.010" with
"newone.011"

What's the best way to do this?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Jack L. Stone