Running adb commands on all connected devices

Question

Is there a way of running adb commands on all connected devices? To uninstall an app from all connected devices with \"adb uninstall com.example.android\".

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Answer 1

To add in the ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc:

alias adb-all="adb devices | awk 'NR>1{print \$1}' | parallel -rkj0 --tagstring 'on {}: ' adb -s {}"

Examples:

• $ adb-all shell date
• $ adb-all shell getprop net.hostname
• $ adb-all sideload /path/to/rom.zip
• $ adb-all install /path/filename.apk
• $ adb-all push /usr/local/bin/frida-server-arm64 /data/local/tmp/frida-server

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Explanation: awk extracts the device id/host (first column: print $1) of every lines except the first one (NR>1) to remove the "List of devices attached" header line), then gnu parallel runs adb -s on whatever non-empty line (-r) in the order specified (-k, to avoid random order / fastest response order) and prepend each line with on :\t for clarity, all in parallel (-j0, possible to set another number to define how many adb should be ran in parallel instead of unlimited).

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