diff --git a/src/utils/batchprocessors.py b/src/utils/batchprocessors.py
index 9661d23a2e..541efc49a8 100644
--- a/src/utils/batchprocessors.py
+++ b/src/utils/batchprocessors.py
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ from src.utils import utils
 ENCODINGS = settings.ENCODINGS
 CODE_INFO_HEADER = re.compile(r"\(.*?\)")
 
-RE_INSERT = re.compile(r"^\#INSERT (.*?)", re.MULTILINE)
+RE_INSERT = re.compile(r"^\#INSERT (.*)", re.MULTILINE)
 RE_CLEANBLOCK = re.compile(r"^\#.*?$|^\s*$", re.MULTILINE)
 RE_CMD_SPLIT = re.compile(r"^\#.*?$", re.MULTILINE)
 RE_CODE_SPLIT = re.compile(r"(^\#CODE.*?$|^\#HEADER)$", re.MULTILINE)
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ class BatchCommandProcessor(object):
 
         def replace_insert(match):
             "Map replace entries"
-            return "\#\n".join(self.parse_file(match.group()))
+            return "\#\n".join(self.parse_file(match.group(1)))
 
         # insert commands from inserted files
         text = RE_INSERT.sub(replace_insert, text)