A bash script that let's you issue adb commands to multiple devices at once

adb+

#!/bin/bash
# Script adb+
# Usage
# You can run any command adb provides on all your currently connected devices
# ./adb+ <command> is the equivalent of ./adb -s <serial number> <command>
#
# Examples
# ./adb+ version
# ./adb+ install apidemo.apk
# ./adb+ uninstall com.example.android.apis

adb devices | while read line
do
    if [ ! "$line" = "" ] && [ `echo $line | awk '{print $2}'` = "device" ]
    then
        device=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`
        echo "$device $@ ..."
        adb -s $device $@
    fi
done

Just wanted to let you know I'm using this, works great; Thanks.

Hi, I have created the windows version of the same at ADB+.BAT!

Still using it thanks Mr. Chris P.

This has stopped working for me. For some reason my terminal is only reading the first line. Below is my adjusted code to debug and also my output.

It still works fine with one device. If multiple are connected it will only send the command to the first device listed.

filename = adb+

command issued: adb+ shell input text win
expected outcome: the string "win" typed on to every device connected.

//~~~~~~~~~ Code ~~~~~~~~~~

#!/bin/bash
# "pipe" the listed devices to a while loop

echo print out devices
adb devices
adb devices | while read line
do
  echo start of whileloop
    # if it's not empty, use the next line
    if [ ! "$line" = "" ] && [ `echo $line | awk '{print $2}'` = "device" ];
    then
      echo test, start of ifstatement
      echo $line
      echo end test

        # assign device variable to the result of printing the first token
        device=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`

        # simple print out, letting user know something is happening
        echo "$device $@ ..."

        # run the adb commands you set as an argument to "adb+"
        adb -s $device $@
        echo endofif
    fi
    echo end of whileloop
done

//~~~~~~~~ Output~~~~~~~~~

$ adb+ shell input text win
print out devices
List of devices attached
13564a0d    device
84B7N16315001956    device

start of whileloop
end of whileloop
start of whileloop
test, start of ifstatement
13564a0d device
end test
13564a0d shell input text win ...
84B7N16315001956    device

endofif
end of whileloop

I had the same issue like above and found some inspiration here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17047659/bash-enumerate-all-the-attached-devices

I changed my script to:

for line in `adb devices | grep -v "List"  | awk '{print $1}'`
do
  device=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`
  echo "$device $@ ..."
  adb -s $device $@
done

This works for me.

No script needed.
This command works perfect
adb devices | awk 'NR>1{print $1}' | xargs -n1 -I% adb -s % install foo.apk

thebagchi
Thank you for sharing your .bat I look forward to testing it.

Hi guys, how do I get started? Do I drop the file in platform-tools and it's ready to go? Simply use adb+ followed by commands?

shell commands do not work with multiple devices. Shell commands only hit the first device. Non shell commands, such as install, push and pull work fine on multiple devices

adb devices | awk 'NR>1{print $1}' | xargs -n1 -I% adb -s % install foo.apk

Thank you very much! Works perfectly fine, exactly what i was looking for.

@sivze You're right, this command does work perfectly. Thanks for the simple solution!

No script needed.
This command works perfect
adb devices | awk 'NR>1{print $1}' | xargs -n1 -I% adb -s % install foo.apk