HELP! Rendering Multiple .blend files in 2.81

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Blender.org is down and I can’t read any of the documentation!
Hello,
I have a bunch of Blender files each with one camera, and some file output nodes. I want to batch render these with a script in 2.81a, i am a completely out of my depth as far as the python scripting goes. But I can make a folder with all the relevant files, seems like a smart move. I have only been able to find documentation on rendering multiple cameras within a scene using scripting. I was looking thru this https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/313/is-there-a-way-to-batch-render-multiple-scenes but I don’t understand where to run it from?

Any guidance would be appreciated as I have been pulling allnighters to fix all these scenes and I’d like to sleep while I attempt to render them.
I did find an older post about multiple files, but the script doesn’t seem to work properly when I run it.

Running on a cMP OSX13.6 Blender 2.81

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I’ve had a good experience with B-Renderon. https://blendermarket.com/products/b-renderon

Just throw in all the blend files you want to render and it’ll do them all while you sleep.

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blender -b file_name.blend -x 1 -o //file -F AVI_JPEG -s 001 -e 250 -S scene_name -a

Open your terminal inside where Blender is, and run a command similar to above with your own needs.

That command you linked was from 2013. In the terminal type blender --help to see all the current flags that you can use.

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Thanks so much, do I need to specify scene name if I only have one scene per file?

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I marked a different solution as the actual code solution. But I think I’ll be using this as my real solution for now and a lot in the future! Thanks so much