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I've solved my problem for now, by launching my batch file with the sub-directory names as replaceable parameters, and looping (using 'shift') through each sub-directory in turn. This means Renamer has to run as many times as there are sub-directories, so it's not an ideal solution particularly as ...

Thanks, antp - at least I now know I haven't misunderstood the syntax!
This a great piece of software, and the answer to many of my prayers - just not my most important one, alas!
Will play around with a few batch file tricks to see if I can work round the issue pro tem (?possibly by piping output ...

I'm trying to use the recursion function (-r) in a (Windows) batch file:

-afr Drive\path\*.* acts on the whole sub-directory tree, renaming every file

-afr Drive\path\*.txt only acts on the .txt files in the specified directory.

Is this by design? Not how /s switch would work in Windows commands ...