Nicer adb shell + Jonathan Levin's (and more) tools

This is a wrapper script around adb that puts the user in a bash session with the PATH variable including /data/local/tmp.

adb_bash_github.mp4

Important: the tools jtrace64, bdsm, imjtool, memento and procexp are downloaded from nightly build archives and may be unstable.

Contents:

• Automatically downloads nighly builds of Jonathan Levin's Tools
• Automatically downloads a statically linked bash (thanks, Ubuntu!)
• A bashrc file with extra helpers and configuration (like setting the HISTFILE)
• A collection of helper functions and aliases, such as:
  • ip4 - print the device's IPv4 address, if one is available
  • h - a uniform wrapper around various hash programs, like md5 and sha
  • strip_control - removes control characters from input
  • f - opinionated find shorthand
  • out and s - collect files or screenshots from within the shell to an output directory on the host

Automatic adb pull

In the bash shell, running the command out will collect files into a special directory in /data/local/temp that's continually adb pull'd onto the host machine. s is a special case of out that takes and sends a screenshot.

If you set the env variable ANDROID_AUTOPEN_FILES then, on macOS only, the pulled files will be automatically opened with a call to open.

Requirements

This tool requires:

• Docker (only to get static bash for aarch64)
• wget OR curl

USAGE

Clone or download this repository, cd into it and then run ./adb_bash.sh.

I have multiple devices and...

I gotcha - set ANDROID_SERIAL or pass the serial you want to use to the script as the first argument.

Waaa! It takes a long time to download all the dependencies!

Only the first time, fam.