Re: 'one liner' to send sms?

[Ernest B M (gmail)]

Gian Uberto Lauri wrote the following on 04/05/2006 03:33 PM:
> > > > > > "EBM" == Ernest B M (gmail) <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> EBM> yes. i see it is the following sequence:
>
> EBM> gnokii --sendsms <number> 
> EBM> ...  
> EBM> ...  
> EBM> message 
> EBM> Ctrl+D
>
> EBM> what i am trying to achieve is specifying the number and message
> EBM> on the same command, and hitting enter to send the sms
>
> This is an issue regardin the shell, not gnokii, maybe man bash should
> have helped you :).
>
> As your example suggest, and this one 
>
> echo "Message" | gnokii --sendsms <number> 
>
> confirms, the text  to be sent as SMS is readed  from stdin (yes, this
> solves your problem AFAIK).
>
> All you need is  to do is play around with pipes  or here documents or
> even here strings  (with bash, see the man page of  the shell you use)
> as you feel it suites more to your taste.

thanks!

rgds
ern