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redirect a data stream from adb to a local utility - Android

I need to use the stream of data provided by a device under android in my utilities.

Under a standard Linux distribution I would do the following:

util -input /dev/random

with adb and Android i would like to use a /dev/random from the Android device as input for my local util. How i'm supposed to create this pipe ?

if i do

adb pull /dev/random random

adb just exits after dumping 1 complete copy but i need a constant pipe/stream.

Thanks.

Solution

  • You should use something like this

    $ adb shell dd if=/dev/random | util -input -

    providing that your util reads from stdin if - is specified.

    Also note that the command is using the non-blocking random source.