* script to read files and add two spcaces " " import subprocess var1 = " " var2 = ".txt" subprocess.call(["ls -la -f *.* > temp.txt"],shell=True) myfiles = open("temp.txt") lines = myfiles.read().splitlines() for i in lines: if "script_change.py" in i: print("I will not change %s " % i) else: myfile = open(i) newname = i + var2 newfile = open(newname.lower(), "w") #dokuwiki needs to have the name only in lower case for j in myfile: newtext = var1 + j newfile.write(newtext)