如何获取带有文件名的文件的完整路径？

Question

[ SOLUTION ]

Thanks to @oguzismail and @stylo I find the solution. In the find command I modified the 2>&1 for 2>/dev/null and deleted the grep command, but I found the problem that it retrieves me two different path (because Android studio it was generation two different apk with the same name in two different paths).

To only get the path of the apk I want, I add a "filter" for my find command so the solution is:

find / -path ./intermediates -prune -o -name app-ipd-debug.apk 2>/dev/null

with name of the folder ./intermediates and -prune -o I can get the path I wanted to.

I saw the solution in this post

[ PROBLEM ]

I am doing a shell script that build an android project, install apk and do some more configurations in the device like set owner device owner (is a kiosk mode app) and some more stuff.

Now I am trying to dynamically build the project and get the apk file to install in the device but it doesn't work correctly.

I try putting the full path as a variable in my shell script and this works installing the app using the command adb install:

adb install -t -r $APK_PATH

I have tried t get the APK_PATH with find command but it retrieves me a lot of output that I don't know how to handle it, the command is:

find / -name apk-file-name.apk

A lot of output with " Permission denied " and " Operation not permitted " is shown and in one line of those the apk path is shown (this is the one I don't know how to get it, only this result)

I try to filter the results using grep but it doesn't work

find / -name apk-file-name.apk 2>&1 | grep -v "Operation not permitted"

and

find / -name apk-file-name.apk 2>&1 | grep -v "Operation not permitted"|"Permission denied"

any help?

Answer 1

You can use the locate command to locate files in your file system.

if you haven't enabled it yet, you can do so by running the following command

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist

you won't be able to use it for a few minutes since it will index everything and later on you can use locate file_name.apk to find the file you're looking for.