Rooted phone - sending SMS message via command line

Question

I have a rooted Droid (Sholes), with ConnectBot installed. I can ssh into it via dropbear copied to /system/xbin, and/or also the instance of Debian installed on it via the "Linux Installer" application. I'm in portable Linux bliss. But...

I would like to send an SMS message via the shell. Something like

 sendsms 8005551234 "This is a text."

Anything like this out there?

Answer 1

You should be able to call the messaging intent with

am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW "sms:numberhere" -e "sms_body" "hello"

Using the intent command as described here:

http://learnandroid.blogspot.com/2008/01/run-android-application-from-command.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4967448/send-sms-in-android