Help with Basic Terminal Command

[elgrayso]

I rarely use the terminal (OSX Mavericks) so I am a compete noob. I found the "Cmdline and Argument Passing" post as well as the CLI Manual, but I'm not sure on how to get started.
I basically want to write a command into terminal that says "go to this path and use filebot to rename these movie files."
My attempt was entering

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filebot -rename /Users/Droopy/Desktop/videos/

into terminal but it said "command not found."

[elgrayso]

my programmer friend looked at this and said that i dont have the "CLI" command line interface for filebot and that is why its not working. after a lot of searching I found that the installer is hidden inside of the package contents of filebot itself. mine wasn't there so i did a lot more searching online. eventually i figured out that it isnt actually in the package contents of my application because I downloaded it from the app store and it is slightly different. so I went to the filebot download page again and this time noticed that, in very tiny light colored print, it says the Homebrew Cask version is needed for the command line tools. So now I am learning how to install that stuff.
I kind of wish there was a tutorial on getting the filebot command line installed, but i guess i am getting close.

update: it looks like there are some instructions, although i wouldnt have known what homebrew meant previously
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2049

[elgrayso]

sweet i got it working! it was a little unclear to me that filebot command line didnt work just by having the software, so you might want to add a note about that on one of the command line info pages, along with a link to your homebrew instructions. it might save another noob like me a lot of time searching to piece it all together....
or maybe im the only one that got confused lol