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I think they are env vars. complete is a bash built-in. It is executed in the process of the shell. You only need to export for child processes.

Check out pandoc. With it you could convert your documents into Markdown. Then use common *nix text-utils to merge the parts you want into a single file and then load it to InDesign. Check out this article (http://rhythmus.be/md2indd/) that inspired me to automate protocol specs extraction from Word documents (bluurgh).

I've never used it myself (I'm just a programmer) but perhaps Workable (https://www.workable.com/) might be what you're looking for.

Sweet! I've been automating my own tasks for years and I'd love to do it as a full time job.

Nothing comes to mind but perhaps you could find inspiration from the competition section of kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/competitions). At the moment there are 170 including completed ones.