Adb Pull Multiple Files


Answer :

You can use xargs and the result of the adb shell ls command which accepts wildcards. This allows you to copy multiple files. Annoyingly the output of the adb shell ls command includes line-feed control characters that you can remove using tr -d '\r'.

Examples:

# Using a relative path adb shell 'ls sdcard/gps*.trace' | tr -d '\r' | xargs -n1 adb pull # Using an absolute path  adb shell 'ls /sdcard/*.txt' | tr -d '\r' | sed -e 's/^\///' | xargs -n1 adb pull 

adb pull can receive a directory name instead of at file and it will pull the directory with all files in it.

Pull all your gps traces in /sdcard/gpsTraces

adb pull /sdcard/gpsTraces/ .  

Example of adb pull and adb push of recursive directories:

C:\Test>adb pull /data/misc/test/ . pull: building file list... pull: /data/misc/test/test1/test2/test.3 -> ./test1/test2/test.3 pull: /data/misc/test/test1/test2/test.2 -> ./test1/test2/test.2 pull: /data/misc/test/test1/test2/test.1 -> ./test1/test2/test.1 pull: /data/misc/test/test1/test.3 -> ./test1/test.3 pull: /data/misc/test/test1/test.2 -> ./test1/test.2 pull: /data/misc/test/test1/test.1 -> ./test1/test.1 pull: /data/misc/test/test.3 -> ./test.3 pull: /data/misc/test/test.2 -> ./test.2 pull: /data/misc/test/test.1 -> ./test.1 9 files pulled. 0 files skipped. 0 KB/s (45 bytes in 0.093s)  C:\Test>adb push . /data/misc/test/ push: ./test1/test2/test.3 -> /data/misc/test/test1/test2/test.3 push: ./test1/test2/test.2 -> /data/misc/test/test1/test2/test.2 push: ./test1/test2/test.1 -> /data/misc/test/test1/test2/test.1 push: ./test1/test.3 -> /data/misc/test/test1/test.3 push: ./test1/test.2 -> /data/misc/test/test1/test.2 push: ./test1/test.1 -> /data/misc/test/test1/test.1 push: ./test.3 -> /data/misc/test/test.3 push: ./test.2 -> /data/misc/test/test.2 push: ./test.1 -> /data/misc/test/test.1 9 files pushed. 0 files skipped. 0 KB/s (45 bytes in 0.062s) 

./adb pull /sdcard <-- fails

./adb pull /sdcard/ <-- works recursively - note the trailing slash

Tested with Nexus 5 and adb downloaded March 2014.


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