adb: Find PID from the adb shell

Question

I am trying to get the PID of the process INSIDE adb shell. So, I am doing adb shell which gets me to the android shell. Now, if I were to get the PID using a regular shell I would use

adb shell ps | grep android.process.acore | sed 's/\s\s*/ /g' | cut -d ' ' -f 2

OR

adb shell ps | grep android.process.acore | awk '{ print $2 }'

I get the PID (a numeric number - 2nd field of the ps | grep android.process.acore) output.

However, if I run the above commands inside android shell(after doing adb shell), I get /system/bin/sh: sed: not found and /system/bin/sh: awk: not found errors respectively. Which means, these commands are not available inside adb shell. However, grep works.

The output of the ps | grep android.process.acore inside adb shell is:

XXX_x21   11826 441   502296 39028 ffffffff 4010ff6c S android.process.acore

I am looking for the number 11826. How can I extract it inside adb shell?

Also, please help if there is a direct way to get the PID inside the adb shell.

Regards, Rumit

do you have `busybox` installed? – Alex P. Jan 23 '14 at 21:57 — Alex P., Jan 23 '14 at 21:57

score 20 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 04 '16 at 16:12

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Android versions starting with 6.0 already include pidof utility:

usage: pidof [-s] [-o omitpid[,omitpid...]] [NAME]...

Print the PIDs of all processes with the given names.

-s      single shot, only return one pid.
-o      omit PID(s)

answered Sep 04 '16 at 16:12

Alex P.

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This is the correct answer. `adb shell pidof com.yourapp` – keios Feb 18 '21 at 07:23

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '14 at 22:06

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Not sure if you can get the PID directly however you can try the following

set `ps |grep android.process.acore`
echo $2

This has the affect of setting the output of the ps command into variables $1, $2, $3 etc. The PID value is in $2

answered Jan 23 '14 at 22:06

Steve Weet

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Hi Steve, Thank you for your answer. However, I'm stuck using the command inside adb shell via java runexec(). See details here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21321085/command-with-pipe-and-spaces-does-not-work-with-runtime-exec any help is appreciated. Regards, – rumit patel Feb 16 '14 at 02:26

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 30 '16 at 11:32

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I tried this one and it seems to work:

adb shell "set "ps | grep android.process.media"; kill -9 $2"

edited Jun 30 '16 at 11:32

JKennedy

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answered Jun 05 '16 at 09:16

y0tta

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 02 '22 at 12:22

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I tried this one and it seems to work:

adb shell
ps -A | grep "android.process.acore"

edited Sep 02 '22 at 12:22

General Grievance

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answered Dec 15 '20 at 12:11

BASAVARAJ PATIL

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 18 '21 at 04:13

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adb shell pidof [package name]

or

adb shell pidof -s [package name]

-s option is for single shot, returning only one pid.

answered Apr 18 '21 at 04:13

oiyio

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