Is there any regex to find package name

Question

I want to run monkey on game 2048 using adb

So, i need package name of 2048, i used

adb shell pm list packages -f

to list packages.

I could not find 2048 in it, but the application is installed on my device. Is there any regex by which i can look for package name using keyword 2048

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '14 at 06:21

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Using the same command just look for /data/app/ in the list. And if you are using and Linux destro or MAC then you can use grep/egrep command on output to find it easily

answered Dec 15 '14 at 06:21

Viral Thakker

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I am using windows, i checked in data/app and there is nothing matching 2048 – Saurabh Shrivastava Dec 15 '14 at 06:34
is there any method to display only data/app packages and not system – Saurabh Shrivastava Dec 15 '14 at 06:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 15 '14 at 06:21

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Just because the app name is "2048" does not mean it is used in the package name. However, I looked up the most popular Google Play game and it does have 2048 in the package name.

You could use grep to get the package. The following example will get the path to the APK file:

adb shell pm list packages -f | grep 2048 | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d= -f1
...
/data/app/com.estoty.game2048-1.apk

An easy way to find out the package name of an app on Google Play is to just search on the Google Play Store and look at the last part of the URL:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.presselite.the2048game

answered Dec 15 '14 at 06:21

Jared Rummler

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it says 'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command. – Saurabh Shrivastava Dec 15 '14 at 06:29
Are you running this command from windows command prompt or linux terminal? I should have noted that I ran the above line on a rooted device with busybox installed using cygwin. – Jared Rummler Dec 15 '14 at 06:32
Which of the many 2048 games do you have installed? https://play.google.com/store/search?q=2048&c=apps – Jared Rummler Dec 15 '14 at 06:39

Is there any regex to find package name

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