Const ForReading = 1 Const ForWriting = 2 strFileName = Wscript.Arguments(0) Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFileName, ForReading) strText = objFile.ReadAll objFile.Close strNewText = Replace(strText, "_USCORE", "_") strNewText = Replace(strNewText, "_x002e", "_") Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFileName, ForWriting) objFile.Write strNewText 'WriteLine adds extra CR/LF objFile.Close