import sys import os from sys import argv file_name = argv[1] path = 'file/' for file in os.listdir(file_name): dir_entry_path = os.path.join(path,file); print dir_entry_path f = open(dir_entry_path,'r') rc = f.read().replace('aaa','jjj') f.close() t =open(dir_entry_path,'w') t.write(rc) t.close()