Learning Android Forensics - Second Edition

Issuing shell commands

As mentioned in Chapter 1, Introducing Android Forensics, Android runs on a Linux kernel and so provides a way to access the shell. Using adb, you can access a shell to run several commands on an Android device. For those who are not familiar with Linux environment, Linux shell refers to a special program that allows you to interact with it by entering certain commands from the keyboard; the shell will execute the commands and display its output. More details about how things work on Linux environment have been provided under the Rooting Android device section in this chapter.

The adb shell command can be used to enter into a remote shell, as shown in the following command-line output. Once you enter the shell, you ...