Android ADB: pull to memory

Question

Is it possible to somehow redirect the outputs of adb pull not to a file but to some place in memory?

specifically i am writing a java program, that executes

adb pull /dev/graphics/fb0

and in the same program i want to process the results without having to read the fb0 file from disk again.

Answer 1

You can make sure to write the file into shared memory. Assuming your using a linux system just pull the file into the

/dev/shm/ directory.

See this post for more details.

http://www.howtoforge.com/storing-files-directories-in-memory-with-tmpfs

Answer 2

You can always do something like

adb shell cat /dev/graphics/fb0 | myprogramthatprocessestheresult

and you don't have to save the file as long as myprogramthatprocessestheresult reads from stdin.