I am using Exact Audio Copy to rip my CDs, with each CD's tacks going to individual FLAC files.

Right now, EAC makes this process less convenient than it ought to, because you need to do several steps manually:
a) click on appropriate menu item to create the cue sheet
b) wait 1 minute or so until this process is done; cannot do any productive work during this time, so I websurf...
c) select all the tracks and then click on the (badly named) mp3 icon to do the wav extraction and flac compression

I would like to simply click on one icon, or select one menu item, and have it generate the cue sheet, extract and flac all the trakcs, and then do a single beep when finished (right now, EAC's "Beep after extraction finished" option beeps after each track is done, which is annoying).

Anyone know how to do this?

If you are ripping your CD to a single image file, you could select the "Copy Image and Create Cue Sheet" menu choice. But I absolutely need to rip tracks to individual flac files.

Maybe one of the many EAC tools (REACT, FlacAttack, etc) can do this--let me know if one does all of this. I recall reading that one of them (FlacAttack?) still requires you generate the cue sheet and start the rip in two separate steps.

Alternatively, I am tempted to try and write one of my own scripts. Can EAC be driven by an external program? Can you execute a shell script file that tells EAC to, say, rip all the tracks in the currently inserted CD? Or, is EAC only controllable by its gui?

REACT2 can create an image with an embedded cuesheet and then split it into separate tracks using ACDIR.EXE, I believe.

Thanks for the rec. I will have to look into it.

Anyone know if you can control EAC besides manually using the gui? Or how to write a plugin?

Basically, REACT is a plugin for EAC. Considering what you are asking for, REACT should fit the bill very nicely.