with open("getrepo.bat") as f: d = [a.strip().replace("%", "%%").split(" ") for a in f.readlines()] q = [] for a in d: q.append(" ".join(a[:a.index("-o")+1] + [x.replace("/", "\\") for x in a[a.index("-o")+1:]])) with open("getrepo.bat", "w") as f: f.write("\n".join(q))