Practical Mobile Forensics - Fourth Edition

Basic Linux commands

We will now take a quick look at some commonly used Linux commands and their usage with respect to an Android device:

• ls: The ls command (with no option) lists the files and directories present in the current directory. With the -l option, this command shows files and directories and also their size, modified date and time, the owner of the file and its permission, and so on, as shown in the following command-line output:

shell@android:/ $ ls -l
ls -l
drwxr-xr-x root     root             2015-01-17 10:13 acct
drwxrwx--- system   cache             2014-05-31 14:55 cache
dr-x------ root     root              2015-01-17 10:13 config
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2015-01-17 10:13 d -> /sys/kernel/debug
drwxrwx--x system   system            2015-01-17 10:13 data
-rw-r--r-- root root 116 1970-01-01 ...