Remember, nothin' says lovin' like bakin' in the oven.

Somewhere along the line, I figured out that 5551234567@vtext.com would send an SMS message to a Verizon cell phone at 555-123-4567 (which, obviously, is not my number).

Anyway, a month or two ago, when staring at a console window waiting for a compilation, I remembered this fact, and wrote a little script called sms that looked like this:

#!/bin/bash
echo $1 | mail 5551234567@vtext.com

I also wrote two other scripts named smsdone and smserror that would send the strings "done" and "error" (sms "done" and sms "error").

Then, when need to do a compilation, I string together whatever commands I need to run and form a boolean expression that will call either smsdone or smserror:

([[[cmd1] && cmd2] && ... ] && smsdone) || smserror

Then I walk to the kitchen, go on a walk, or swordfight on office chairs until I get a text message to come back.