Copying a file from withing a apk to the internal storage

Question

I would like to push a text document from the apk into the /system directory (Yes its a app for rooted users) and was wondering how i would do this :) My txt file is in the

Answer 1

You can try this function (found here):

public String runSystemCommand(String cmd)
{
    try {
        // Executes the command.
        Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);

        // Reads stdout.
        // NOTE: You can write to stdin of the command using
        //       process.getOutputStream().
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
                new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));
        int read;
        char[] buffer = new char[4096];
        StringBuffer output = new StringBuffer();
        while ((read = reader.read(buffer)) > 0) {
            output.append(buffer, 0, read);
        }
        reader.close();

        // Waits for the command to finish.
        process.waitFor();

        return output.toString();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }       
}

I've tryed it myself in this way:

    String cmdoutput = this.runSystemCommand("/system/bin/ls .");
    Log.d("SampleAndroidInterfaceActivity", "runSystemCommand() returned: " + cmdoutput);

and works well. This is my output:

05-16 17:50:10.423: runSystemCommand() returned: acct
05-16 17:50:10.423: cache
05-16 17:50:10.423: config
05-16 17:50:10.423: d
05-16 17:50:10.423: data
05-16 17:50:10.423: default.prop
05-16 17:50:10.423: dev
05-16 17:50:10.423: etc
05-16 17:50:10.423: init
05-16 17:50:10.423: init.goldfish.rc
05-16 17:50:10.423: init.rc
05-16 17:50:10.423: mnt
05-16 17:50:10.423: proc
05-16 17:50:10.423: root
05-16 17:50:10.423: sbin
05-16 17:50:10.423: sdcard
05-16 17:50:10.423: sys
05-16 17:50:10.423: system
05-16 17:50:10.423: ueventd.goldfish.rc
05-16 17:50:10.423: ueventd.rc
05-16 17:50:10.423: vendor

If you know the absolute path of your txt file, you can easily copy it with a cp.