How to find a file inside device ?

[asteroidg]

Hi to everyone.

I need some help. I need to find a file inside device, but i have just a part of the file name . How can I find that inside the device programmaticaly ? Also my file will have the following mask file* , where * will replace the other character file name ?

What methods should I used for that ? or even some linux commands to retrieve the path of the file ?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you.

[jeffv2]

Tell us the file or part of the name

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[asteroidg]

Ok. The file name will be AndLib_AC0123456789.apk, I want to look trough all device to find the that file using just AndLib*.apk . Any suggestions or even methods will be appreciated!

[CJM]

If the .apk has been installed, with a file explorer on your phone (astro, root explorer, etc.) look in data\app or system\app.
If it hasnt been installed, and downloaded from the stock browser, look in the download or my downloads folders on your sd. Again with a file explorer from the phone.
If it was downloaded from another browser, like xscope, it may be in that folder on you sd. Hope this helps.

[asteroidg]

Thank you CJM.
On my both phones(HTC-1.5, XPERIA-1.6) I just figure out that all the time when I am downloading a file it will be stored in /sdcard/download . Getting the file from a specific folder will be :

File dir = new File("/data/app");
File[] fileList = dir.listFiles();

if (fileList != null)
{
for ( int i = 0;i<fileList.length;i++)
{
filename = fileList[i].getName();
Log.d("FN-log","file name="+filename);

if (-1 != filename.indexOf(appName.toString()))
{
break;
}

}
}

Any way I am still looking to have a search engine , method which will look inside the whole device for a file name or masked file name .

[CJM]

Glad you figured it out.

[brando56894]

you could also try the find shell command or port/copy over locate and updatedb.

[asteroidg]

I have tried this too but every time i am getting the issue access is denied.I uses the following code but no luck:

try{
Process process;
process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("su -c find / -name *.apk");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));
}
catch (InterruptedException e)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}