Command prompt window script to automatically run adobe media encoder

Does anyone know of a way to run adobe media encoder from the command prompt or batch file?
I would like to automatically invoke a script, much the way I do for Adobe After Effects.
(I do not mean batch encode from the software.)

This sort of thing is quite easy to accomplish in Windows using Notepad and the keyword Start.
You would type something like
start amencoder.exe (although I don't know the exact full path and exact name of Adobe Media encoder).
Save your text from above into notepad as a .bat file .
I'm not sure how this would be done in Mac but I'm sure there are similar options using the Terminal.
Why do you need to do this when you have an icon that can be double-clicked to invoke the program, by the way?

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