How to list all the files in android phone by using adb shell

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I just try to write a bash shell for my Android Phone  When I want list all the files in my Android Phone  I found that the Android shell terminal doesn t support find command  So I just want to know which is the best way to travel the sdcard files

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I might be wrong but  find -name     works fine for me   Maybe it s just my phone   If you just want to list all files  you can try  adb shell ls -R     You probably need the root permission though   Edit  As other answers suggest  use ls with grep like this   adb shell ls -Ral yourDirectory   grep -i yourString   eg   adb shell ls -Ral     grep -i myfile   -i is for ignore-case  and   is the root directory

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just to add the full command   adb shell ls -R   grep filename   this is actually a pretty fast lookup on Android

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Some Android phones contain Busybox   Was hard to find     To see if busybox was around   ls -lR     grep busybox   If you know it s around  You need some read write space   Try you flash drive   sdcard   cd  sdcard ls -lR    gt lsoutput txt   upload to your computer   Upload the file  Get some text editor   Search for busybox  Will see what directory the file was found in    busybox find  sdcard -iname  python     to make busybox easier to access   you could   cd  sdcard ln -s  where ever busybox is  busybox  sdcard busybox find  sdcard -iname  python     Or any other place you want  R

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Open cmd type adb shell then press enter  Type ls to view  files list

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This command will show also if the file is hidden  adb shell ls -laR   grep filename

[android] How to list all the files in android phone by using adb shell?

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