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How to Send an SMS from a Shell Script using cURL

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Date Published
Author
Miguel Grinberg
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786
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61
Language
English
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Summary

To send an SMS from a shell script using cURL, one needs a Twilio account with a purchased phone number, cURL installed, and environment variables set for Twilio credentials and phone numbers. The most secure way to define these values is by setting environment variables such as `TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID`, `TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN`, `TWILIO_NUMBER`, and `TO_NUMBER`. With the environment variables set, one can send an SMS with a single-line command using the cURL command-line utility. The syntax may vary slightly depending on whether the user is following the tutorial on a Unix or MacOS computer or a Windows computer.

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