Automating file treatment between multiple programmes
<p>I'm trying to find a way to automate a series of processes that uses several different programmes. (Indifferently on Ubuntu and Windows).</p>

<p>For each programme, I've boiled the process down to either a macro or a script in each programme, so I feel confident that the entire process can be almost entirely automated. I just can't figure out what I can do to create a unifying tool.</p>

<p>The process is the following; </p>

<p>I have a simple text file with data, I use a jedit macro to tidy the data. This then goes to a OpenCalc template to create a graph, that data is then imported to a programme called TXM which (after many clicks) generates a column of data, this is exported to a csv file, that csv file is imported to an R session where upon a script is executed.</p>

<p>I have to repeat this process( and a few more similarones) dozens of times a day, and it's driving me nuts. </p>

<p>My research into how to automate the import treatment export process has shown a few glimmers of hope but I haven't been able to make any real progress. </p>

<p>I tried Autoexpect, but couldn't make it work on Ubuntu. TCL, I think only works for internet applications, Fabric I also haven't been able to make work.</p>

<p>I'm willing to spend a lot of time learning and develloping a tool to achieve this, but at the moment I'm not even sure what terms to search for.</p>