Here's a simple Python script to create a message to a (fixed) phone number via the command line. It writes out to /var/spool/sms/outgoing/ but can easily be changed to suit your setup.


 makesms.py 

#!/usr/bin/env python import sys import os,xmpp,random,string def SMStext(msg): try: ext = '.' + ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase + string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits) for x in range(6)) outputfile = '/var/spool/sms/outgoing/makesms_send' + ext smsfile = open(outputfile, "w", 0) smsfile.write("To: 0nnnnnnnnnn\n\n") smsfile.write( msg ) smsfile.write("\n") smsfile.close() except IOError: print "There was an error writing to", outputfile sys.exit(1) try: msg = ' '.join(sys.argv[1:]) except: print 'No message text specified' sys.exit(1) finally: if ( len(sys.argv) == 1 ): print "no message specified: try "+sys.argv[0]+" hello world\n" sys.exit(1) SMStext(msg) sys.exit(0)

edit:the "random" stuff is to create a semi-unique extension to the filename to avoid collisions. I.e.  makesms_send.OOLBLn 

And here is another one, based on GTK:

https://github.com/agardelein/textoter

This is based on GTK, there's an history of previous numbers.