How to run shell commands on Android phone when connected to a PC?

Question

I need to run ping request on my Android phone using the following format:

 ping google.com | while read pong; do echo " $pong  @$(date)"; done

There are some applications, such as Terminal Emulator which do that. But just in case I'm curious if I can run shell commands on phone using my PC connection, when the phone is connected to my PC?

EDIT: Yes, it works with the command. But for > r.log it needs root. Any suggestions for that?

Answer 1

Enable developer mode on the phone and use adb tool from Android SDK to do that.

I am not sure how powerful adb's shell is, but give it a try.

You can do even more with adb, check its help.