Inserting Filename into Header/Footer

Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a way to enter the filename (without the file extension) into the header of my document. From the research I've been doing it seems the only way to do this would be to write some sort of javascript, or pay for a 3rd party plug-in with a ton of features I'll never need or use. You would think Adobe would have made this pretty simple to do, it seems I've seen a lot of people asking for it for various reasons.
Is there a simple way to do it? Or am I totally out of luck. I was hoping to be able to do it for batch processing, but I think my options are limited, as it seems the only way might be to write a javascript and insert that into the batch processing process.
Thanks.

Yeah I'm looking for a way to do it in batch automaticaly. I could do it manually but I have potentialy thousands of documents.
I don't know how to write javascript so would there be an easy way of creating a script?

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