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I have a file that contains only x's and 2's. I want to change the x's to either 1 or 2 and the sum of 1's in the new file must be exactly 10000. The total number of x in the current file is 87505.

Any tips on how this is done?
Here's a portion of the said file:

       2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 x x x x x x x x x x x 2 2
       2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2                      
       2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 x x x x x x x x x x x 2 2
       2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2                       
       2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 x x x x x x x x x x x 2 2
       2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2                        
       2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 x x x x x x x x x x x 2 2
       2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 

Would you know number of x's in advance?

Yes. I just counted them on notepad. I want the file to have the same format which I created manually.