A customer texts a single word and, on the other end, a computer somewhere runs the exact command it has been told to run, with no one sitting at the keyboard for it to happen and no one logging in remotely to set it off. TRIGGERcmd exists to fire saved commands on remote computers, and it takes its cue from somewhere else, it does not generate events of its own. Through Zapier, Mobile Message can supply that cue the moment a text comes in, using a reply as the switch that starts the whole thing.

When a reply matches what the connection is set up to watch for, it can run a saved command on the connected computer, whether that is restarting a service, opening a file or kicking off a script someone has already prepared. The outcome is a machine doing the work the instant the message lands, rather than a person reading a text and then going to trigger the command by hand, or waiting until they are back at their desk to do it.