Is there anything like ARexx in Unix or Windows?

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Is there anything like an ARexx port on software used in Unix and Windows such that one can easily command other software esp closed source ones to do things. And thus open up for integration and batch processing?
Seems to be the missing feature, or did I miss something?

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There's lots of script languages. But the major culprint is support for being able to open a port to commercial software (or free) and make say.. open a file. Do something with it. Save it. Open next etc..
No good standard is useful if there's no implementations done. Even bad implementations.

I guess M$-Win OLE/DDE is along this route but it's also requires some very win32 specific binary juggling. Not something clean and straightforward as an Rexx script. This could be used to make a microcontroller windoze-only programmer fetch a unix hexfile and burn it. For example..

I think Dbus might be alike but it's mostly for hardware (usb) reconfiguration asfaik.