Keyword expansion in the adb command arguments

[yyoon]

Suppose there are three named devices: Alice, Bob, and Carol.

A user might want to push some configuration files that are slightly different for each device before running an app. If the user wants to do the following,

copy local Alice.config to /sdcard/app.config on Alice device copy local Bob.config to /sdcard/app.config on Bob device copy local Carol.config to /sdcard/app.config on Carol device

then madb doesn't help much because the arguments should be slightly different.

It would be nice if this could be done in one line something like this:

madb exec push {{name}}.config /sdcard/app.config

The {{name}} would be a placeholder to be replaced by the actual device nickname on which the command is running.

Here are some potential keywords to provide:

• {{name}} - the device nickname, or the serial if a nickname is not set for the device.
• {{serial}} - the device serial
• {{index}} - the device index starting from 1

[yyoon]

Done by 9a63baf