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pm list packages -f
@full-of-foo

full-of-foo commented Nov 15, 2013

👍
@full-of-foo

full-of-foo commented Nov 15, 2013

Nice one liner: " adb shell 'pm list packages -f' "
:trollface:
@banshee

banshee commented May 1, 2014

And for just the packages:

adb shell 'pm list packages -f' | sed -e 's/.*=//' | sort

Need to delete a bunch of things? This gives you an uninstall for everything that's installed; cut and paste to adjust:

adb shell 'pm list packages -f' | sed -e 's/.*=//' | sed -e 's/^/adb uninstall /' | sort | less
@sunnychan2012

sunnychan2012 commented Jul 31, 2014

how to save it as a notepad text file?
I found the answer:
adb shell pm list packages -f > b:\1.txt
@amr

amr commented Sep 13, 2014

Building up on banshee's one liner, for me there was a trailing \r, removing it was needed, as such:

adb shell 'pm list packages -f' | sed -e 's/.*=//' | sed 's/\r//g' | sort

Only then I was able to do get the following to work:

adb shell 'pm list packages -f' | sed -e 's/.*=//' | sed 's/\r//g' | grep "com.foobar" | while read pkg; do adb uninstall $pkg; done;
@zebulon988

zebulon988 commented Jan 6, 2015

nice
@rmk677

rmk677 commented May 20, 2015

euhh....
a simple : adb shell 'pm list packages' | sed -n "s/^packages://p"
wont be enought ? I'm a bit lazy...
@rmk677

rmk677 commented May 22, 2015

ok, i saw ...
the \r at the end and weird "$" at the beginning...
@sn0w

sn0w commented Jun 22, 2015

Thanks OP, helped me
@cusspvz

cusspvz commented Jul 1, 2015

Thanks!!! :)
adb shell "pm list packages -f" | cut -f 2 -d "="
@ChiChou

ChiChou commented Aug 4, 2015

@cusspvz -f is unnecessary. adb shell "pm list packages"|cut -f 2 -d ":" works.
@alexlopes

alexlopes commented Mar 11, 2016

Thanks for sharing! 👍
@rdfewxf

rdfewxf commented Apr 23, 2016

I also have one: adb shell pm list packages | awk -F ":" '{print $2}'
@ChiChou is right -f is unnecessary.
@abbath0767

abbath0767 commented Apr 27, 2016

nice
@krishna18787

krishna18787 commented May 7, 2016

could you please let me know how to uninstall a bunch of similar packages in android...
example- i have many application installed in our device with package name com.app.appXXXXX... So how to uninstall that app which start with com.app packages..

Thanks
@Iryna-

Iryna- commented May 17, 2016

Thanks guys!
@gitfib

gitfib commented May 26, 2016

with google play links, no matter the app installer:

all third-party apps (slow because of pm)

adb shell "echo $'<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>My Apps</title></head><body>'; pm list packages -3 | sed -e 's/-.*//' | sed -e 's/.*://' | sort | while read -r line; do echo $'<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id='$line$'" target="_blank">'$line$'</a><br/>'; done; echo $'</body></html>'" > ./myapps.html

external apps only (at least on marshmallow), assuming only one expandable device, and might include duplicates

adb shell "echo $'<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>My Apps</title></head><body>'; ls /mnt/expand/$(ls /mnt/expand/ | head)/app | sed -e 's/-.*//' | sed -e 's/.*://' | sort | while read -r line; do echo $'<a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id='$line$'" target="_blank">'$line$'</a><br/>'; done; echo $'</body></html>'" > ./myapps.html
@IgorGanapolsky

IgorGanapolsky commented Aug 4, 2016

@davidnunez This is a useful command for modifying older phones, especially when needing to make space by uninstalling packages. @changetip $1
@PN1019

PN1019 commented Dec 13, 2016

When I'm trying to copy link directly:
$ adb push ./lib/libc.so.6 /lib

all work fine, but the file a link points to got copied, not a link itself (target now has /lib/libc.so.6 file instead link to file).
Is it possible to copy links to target via adb at all ?J

Thanks!!
@farhanarrafi

farhanarrafi commented Dec 21, 2016

Thanks. Worked great.
@droidzone

droidzone commented Apr 12, 2017

There's no longer any pm list option
@Anubioz

Anubioz commented Jun 19, 2017 • edited

It's now
adb shell sh -c 'cmd package list packages -f'
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