Why passing loop into adb shell not working when running it inside shell do?

Question

This construction failing

adb shell "for i in `seq 10`; do command; done"

But if run it separately it just fine

adb shell
root@vbox86p:/ # for i in `seq 10`; do command; done

Am I missing something?

Update:

Max OSX with zsh

initial parsing of your command is done by your host OS/shell, which you provided no information about — Alex P.
– Alex P., Commented Jan 4, 2016 at 14:43

Empario · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-05 18:27:29Z

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I tried this command and it worked for me:

adb shell "for i in 'seq 10'; do echo "1"; done"

Try to change the quotation symbols in the loop.

Edit:

Try this instead:

adb shell "for i in 1 2 3 4; do echo "1"; done"

edited Jan 5, 2016 at 18:27

answered Jan 5, 2016 at 0:50

Empario

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4 Comments

ar-g Over a year ago

interesting, but it will work out only once inside and outside the adb shell, when should repeat 10 times. The old quotation do work properly but only inside of adb shell

Empario Over a year ago

Try this: adb shell "for i in 1 2 3 4; do echo "1"; done"

ar-g Over a year ago

cool, thanks it's totally working, seems the problem was with passing quotations, plz edit your answer

Empario Over a year ago

No problem, I am happy to help out. For some reason you can not push "seq 10" to adb shell and have to use 1 2 3 4 instead.

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