What is the best way to pull multiple files using
adb pull
I have on my /sdcard/ 25 files with following name:
gps1.trace
gps2.trace
...
gps25.trace
Wildcard does not work:
adb pull /sdcard/gps*.trace .
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:
adb shell 'ls sdcard/gps*.trace' | tr -d '\r' | xargs -n1 adb pull
adb shell 'ls /sdcard/*.txt' | tr -d '\r' | sed -e 's/^\///' | xargs -n1 adb pull