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Hi,

My company is starting a new subscription service and I'm in charge of the data collection. Trouble is, since these will be SMS messages, the have to be within the limit of 160 characters.

So, I can do it manually(get the message and run it through our company's web based SMS management system character-number checker) which is handy except that I have over 300 lines of messages and I can only check one at a time through the system and that'll take me 600 minutes.

So, can someone introduce me to a script or function I can use to do this checking via the linux command line??
Feb 1 '12 #1
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chorny
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160 characters in which encoding?
Feb 1 '12 #2

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