How do I adb pull ALL files of a folder present in SD Card

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I have a folder in my SD Card as   mnt sdcard Folder1 Folder2 Folder3   jpg  The name of Folder1 and Folder2 remains constant and inside Folder2 I have Folder3  4  5 and so on   I want to pull all the jpeg files rather than all files  there are more  using adb to my current directory on the computer    Every folder has different number of jpeg files and other files and I tried using this   adb pull mnt sdcard Folder1 Folder2 Folder   jpg     But it didn t work   So uhmm how do I adb pull all files present in any folder of SD Card with a single command  single command because each folder has different number of files

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Please try with just giving the path from where you want to pull the files I just got the files from sdcard like

adb pull sdcard/

do NOT give * like to broaden the search or to filter out. ex: adb pull sdcard/*.txt --> this is invalid.

just give adb pull sdcard/

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On Android 6 with ADB version 1 0 32  you have to put   behind the folder you want to copy  E g adb pull   sdcard

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Directory pull is available on new android tools    I don t know from which version it was added  but its working on latest ADT 21 1    adb pull  sdcard Robotium-Screenshots pull  building file list    pull   sdcard Robotium-Screenshots 090313-110415 jpg - gt    090313-110415 jpg pull   sdcard Robotium-Screenshots 090313-110412 jpg - gt    090313-110412 jpg pull   sdcard Robotium-Screenshots 090313-110408 jpg - gt    090313-110408 jpg pull   sdcard Robotium-Screenshots 090313-110406 jpg - gt    090313-110406 jpg pull   sdcard Robotium-Screenshots 090313-110404 jpg - gt    090313-110404 jpg 5 files pulled  0 files skipped  61 KB s  338736 bytes in 5 409s

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Single File Folder using pull   adb pull   sdcard Folder1    Output   adb pull   sdcard Folder1  pull  building file list    pull   sdcard Folder1 image1 jpg - gt    image1 jpg pull   sdcard Folder1 image2 jpg - gt    image2 jpg pull   sdcard Folder1 image3 jpg - gt    image3 jpg 3 files pulled  0 files skipped    Specific Files Folders using find from BusyBox   adb shell find   sdcard Folder1  -iname    jpg    tr -d   015    while read line  do adb pull   line   done    Here is an explanation   adb shell find   sdcard Folder1  - use the find command  use the top folder -iname    jpg                    - filter the output to only   jpg files                                  - passes data output  from one command to another tr -d   015                      - explained here  http   stackoverflow com questions 9664086 bash-is-removing-commands-in-while while read line                  - while loop to read input of previous commands do adb pull   line   done          - pull the files into the current running directory  finish  The quotation marks around  line are required to work with filenames containing spaces    The scripts will start in the top folder and recursively go down and find all the    jpg  files and pull them from your phone to the current directory

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if your using jellybean just start cmd  type adb devices to make sure your readable  type adb pull sdcard  sdcard  the date or extra   lt ---this file needs to be made in adb directory beforehand  PROFIT   In other versions type adb pull mnt sdcard  sdcard  the date or extra   Remember to make file or your either gonna have a mess or it wont work

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Yep  just use the trailing slash to recursively pull the directory   Works for me with Nexus 5 and current version of adb  March 2014

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If you want to pull a directory with restricted access from a rooted device you need to restart adb as root  type adb root before pull  Otherwise you ll get an error saying remote object   data data xxx example app  does not exist

[android] How do I adb pull ALL files of a folder present in SD Card

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