Sending TEXT messages to cell phone

Sending TEXT messages to cell phone (SMS)

I worked a solution for a TEXT pageing program to send TEXT messages to a SPRINTPCS service.

Thought I would share it to see if there are others.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# pager.sh
# Al Smith 08.01.2004
# SPRINT SMS paging program 
# Requires wget
# Required arguments are Company PagerNumber Message

FILE=pager.html
clear
if [ -z $1 ] || [ -z $2 ] || [ -z $3 ]
then
        echo "usage: pager.sh CO PIN your message."
        echo "   ex: pager.sh A ########## this is my message."
        exit
fi
CO=$1
PAGER=$2
MSG=`echo $@ |cut -d" " -f3-`
#echo $MSG

# Set up the URL for the differnt providers
SPRINT="http://messaging.sprintpcs.com/textmessaging/composeconfirm?phoneNumber=$PAGER&message=$MSG"

# Write a pager.out file and a $FILE for logging and confirmations
wget -o pager.out -O $FILE "$SPRINT"

# Here we check our Pager Company (mostly for future use)
case $CO in
    SPRINT) # search for conformation
        OK="Message Sent"
        grep "$OK" $FILE >/dev/null
        RC=$?
        case $RC in
            0 ) # Success
                echo Success
            ;;
            *) # Failure
                echo Failed
            ;;
        esac
esac
rm pager.out pager.html
#
# End
#

Lets work to provide others. Want to contibute?

 

This particular script uses the SPRINT PCS website to send pages.

Many emails arrive entirely to late to be ov any use. that is why the script came about. Yes Sprint does the email thing and sometimes they are hours later.

The script will use their own website to send pages. It works just as if the user it typing in the message on their site. Now we all know that not all companies provide such a service but for those that do similar scripts can be written.