Mass APK-signer

[raidzero]

let me give an example, all I have available to me at this time is AIX (Unix)

# ls -l *.apk                                                                   
total 24872                                                                
-rw-rw-rw-   1 samba    staff        385201 Jul 27 14:36 Browser.apk       
-rw-rw-rw-   1 samba    staff        334092 Jul 27 14:39 Camera.apk        
-rw-rw-rw-   1 samba    staff        658509 Jul 27 14:45 Contacts.apk      
-rw-rw-rw-   1 samba    staff        969791 Jul 22 11:46 Email.apk         
-rw-rw-rw-   1 samba    staff        525396 Jul 10 11:59 Gallery3D.apk     
-rw-rw-rw-   1 samba    staff        566089 Jul 27 14:11 Gmail.apk         
-rw-rw-rw-   1 samba    staff       3059265 Jul 27 14:22 LatinImeGoogle.apk
-rw-rw-rw-   1 samba    staff       4808120 Jul 27 14:55 Launcher2.apk     
-rw-rw-rw-   1 samba    staff        623922 Jul 27 14:59 Mms.apk           
-rw-rw-rw-   1 samba    staff        784213 Jul 27 14:29 Vending.apk

in my case, the file name is in the 9th column, so to get that info to a file that can be processed line by line, I use awk:

# ls -l *.apk | awk '{print$9}'        
Browser.apk                            
Camera.apk                             
Contacts.apk                           
Email.apk                              
Gallery3D.apk                          
Gmail.apk                              
LatinImeGoogle.apk                     
Launcher2.apk                          
Mms.apk                                
Vending.apk

hope it helps

though what you did will work for this application, my example shows how to use it correctly also so you know how to take columns of data and process them

[Drew408]

sorry for all the questions...but this is driving me crazy.
in your case it will only sign file in column 9...or all files through column 9? I am confused because anytime I run awk with a print$ higher than one i get a bunch of blank spaces. Just to make it clear. I am trying to sign all apks within a certain folder instead of having to sign them one by one....Thank you.

[Drew408]

wait a minute..ok its COLUMN...not ROW. in my case it is 8

[Drew408]

ok so now that I have the column number figured out....sorry about that...when i cd to unsigned folder and use ls *.apk | awk '{print$8}' i get no results but if i do
ls -l *.apk | awk '{print$8}' it returns all the *.apk's in the folder. when running the original script should I use the -l option?

[raidzero]

ok so now that I have the column number figured out....sorry about that...when i cd to unsigned folder and use ls *.apk | awk '{print$8}' i get no results but if i do
ls -l *.apk | awk '{print$8}' it returns all the *.apk's in the folder. when running the original script should I use the -l option?

yes you need the -l, if the output is not formatted awk wont even see any columns

[Drew408]

ok cool. so here is the updated script



#!/bin/sh


cd ~/sign/unsigned

echo "apk's" are now being signed.
echo

ls -l *.apk | awk '{print$8}' > apklist

while read apk; do echo Now signing $apk.. && java -jar /home/andrew/sign/signapk.jar /home/andrew/sign/testkey.x509.pem /home/andrew/sign/testkey.pk8 $apk /home/andrew/sign/signed\$apk < apklist
done
echo Done!

Im calling the script "a" for now... so this is what I get back in the Terminal

andrew@development-laptop:~$ a
apk's are now being signed.

Then the cursor hangs with no directory just a blank space. an apklist document is created in my unsigned folder. Thats about it.

[raidzero]

ok cool. so here is the updated script



#!/bin/sh


cd ~/sign/unsigned

echo "apk's" are now being signed.
echo

ls -l *.apk | awk '{print$8}' > apklist

while read apk; do echo Now signing $apk.. && java -jar /home/andrew/sign/signapk.jar /home/andrew/sign/testkey.x509.pem /home/andrew/sign/testkey.pk8 $apk /home/andrew/sign/signed\$apk < apklist
done
echo Done!

Im calling the script "a" for now... so this is what I get back in the Terminal

andrew@development-laptop:~$ a
apk's are now being signed.

Then the cursor hangs with no directory just a blank space. an apklist document is created in my unsigned folder. Thats about it.

I don't know, I will have to load up a linux environment and try it. I will be doing that later in the week (parts for a desktop computer will be arriving on Thursday :-D)

[Drew408]

Thanks for all your help! Update me if you figure it out. And i will research in the mean time.