There's nothing I'm detailing here you can't figure out by digging through the help menu and some trial and error, but maybe this will get you there faster. I will not guess at how much time the following batch process has saved me, mostly out of embarrassment.
Steps:
1. Open up Ant Renamer and generate some kind of action. I'm deleting the last 3 characters of a file to kill the version number -- something I do about once a week.
Note that you must create an action and select "Add action to batch" (CTRL+F2) to save the file used later in this process. You can *click* save but it basically generates a blank file.
2. Save the ".ARB" file to a location of your choice (in this case to your temp folder under \POST_ME\remove_version_number.arb) and create a text file with the following:
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"C:\Temp\PortableApps\AntRenamerPortable\AntRenamerPortable.exe" -b "C:\Temp\remove_version_number.arb" -af "C:\Temp\POST_ME\*.txt" -g -x
4. With these arguments, the program will execute the change to all files in the \POST_ME folder ending in .TXT and exit.
The website is a little light on CLI info, but the included help file has all the info you need to tweak this process.
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Related:
* Ant Renamer Official Entry: https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=66 Primary thread: viewtopic.php?t=4406
* Rename Master from JoeJoeSoft (http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/108/) advertises CLI parameters, and appears to have more features. I used Ant because it's been around forever and is open source.