All Terminal Emulator Commands for Android Mar 9, 2024
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3 minute read Terminal is a program to use your operating system in a CLI mode. CLI stands for command line interface. Terminal emulator is a program to emulate the terminal on Android smartphones.
Here are all the commands for the Android terminal emulator.
moving between directories ๐ command meaning lslist all files and directories inside in the current directory ls /sbinlist all files inside /sbin which are the system programs because /sbin is where system programs go cdchange directory to home directory cd ~change directory to home directory cd /system/etc/change directory (a.k.a move) to /system/etc/ directory pwdprint working directory. show the path of the current directory.
dealing with files ๐ command meaning cp /home/something.png /mounted/dir/copy the file something.png from /home/ directory into /mounted/dir/ directory mv /home/something.jpeg /mounted/dir/move the file something.jpeg from /home/ directory into /mounted/dir/ directory touch file.txtcreate a new empty plain text file named file.txt in the current working directory mkdir dir2create a new directory named dir2 in the current working directory rm filename4.txtremove the file filename4.txt in the current working directory
show sizes of files and directoroes ๐ command meaning dfshow sizes of all files inside the current working directory ls -Ahlshow sizes of all files inside the current working directory du -hd 1show sizes of all directories inside the current working directory
dealing with Android applications ๐ command meaning pm list packageslist all installed applications pm list packages | grep 'google'list the installed applications filtered by “google” pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.example.appuninstall the app with com.example.app package name pkg installinstall a new app pkg updateupdate an installed app pkg removeuninstall an app
change to root permissions ๐ command meaning suchange to the super user (su) to get the root permissions
dealing with terminal emulator app ๐ command meaning exitclose the terminal emulator app rebootrestart the Android smartphone uptimeshow the uptime from the last time the smartphone restarted/started envshow all environment variables
plain text manipulation ๐ command meaning cat thatText.txtshow all text content of thatText.txt file grep -rnw somefile.txt -e "that text"search for that text inside the file somefile.txt sedadvanced tool to search/replace text awkadvanced tool/language to search/replace text echo "some text"print “some text” on the terminal standard output (stdout) vima powerful plain text editor and code editor nanoa simple enough plain text editor
Internet & network commands ๐ command meaning ping 8.8.8.8ping Google to check if the Internet is working sshlog in other network-connected computers such as servers
Managing the Android device ๐ command meaning toplist all running processes pslist all running processes
more commands ๐ command meaning amstart or stop any file or application am start -n com.example.app/.MainActivityopen the app com.example.app am force-stop com.example.appforce stop that app am runninglist all running apps am startservicestart a service am stopservicestop a service am dump permissionshow all permissions required by all apps applypatchinstall a custom ROM or upgrade the Android operating system bmgrbackup all files or the OS
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