Why the "adb shell monkey --wait-dbg" doesn't work?

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I want to stop the running monkey by using the adb shell monkey --wait-dbg,but the result is only display like this:Sending WAIT chunkand then the monkey is still running. How to understand the command?The official explain is "Stops the Monkey from executing until a debugger is attached to it."

Try `adb shell ps | awk '/com\.android\.commands\.monkey/ { system("adb shell kill " $2) }'` — shkschneider, Apr 24 '14 at 10:01
Thanks a lot. But I know this way to stop monkey .I just want to understand this command. — hsqzggg, Apr 24 '14 at 10:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 24 '14 at 10:11

I'm not sure as to why your command did not work, but you reported this as working:

adb shell ps | awk '/com\.android\.commands\.monkey/ { system("adb shell kill " $2) }'

This is a linux command line.

Let me explains it: it displays all running processes (ps), filter it to get the process id of "com.android.commands.monkey" (awk) then sends it a SIGTERM signal (kill).

ps(1) lists running processus.
kill(1) sends a SIGTERM signal from the linux kernel directly to the process you targeted.

Why the "adb shell monkey --wait-dbg" doesn't work?

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