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Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs

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Stefan Ram wrote:
> Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> wrote or quoted:
>>I just saw this, so I'll just post my latest version, but it's still
>>saying "The system cannot find the drive specified" for some reason.
> 
>   I assume "it" is "scanads.bat" on Windows.
> 
>   Do you know which line in "scanads.bat" says,
>   "The system cannot find the drive specified"?

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for asking. I'm at the point of giving up, and you know that because
I'm asking for help, which I don't normally need to do for batch scripting.

All I know is that the scanads.bat script doesn't have that line inside it.
So the line is, most likely, coming from Windows.
 "The system cannot find the drive specified."

I'm going to have to build a debug version, but this simple task has taken
far too much energy out of me, as I thought it would be trivial to simply
list all the files inside all the APKs on any given Android device.

The *value* in that endeavor is of extreme importance, since, in the case
of the advertising SDKs incorporated into apps, they're a known quantity.

It should be this simple:
 1. List all the APKs on a device
 2. Unzip each apk into a list of files inside the APK
 3. Search for those that have known advertising SDK names

I'm sure if I resorted to sed/grep/awk/etc., it would be trivial.
But I'm trying to keep the script general purpose so all can use it.

So I'm stuck with the horribly crappy way Windows handles complex lists. 

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Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-08-06 20:02 +0000
  Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-08-06 12:22 -0800
    Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-08-06 12:26 -0800
      Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-08-07 04:52 +0800
    Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-08-06 20:28 +0000
      Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-08-06 12:40 -0800
        Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-08-06 13:07 -0800
          Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-08-06 13:27 -0800
            Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-08-06 21:32 +0000
              Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-08-06 13:55 -0800
                Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-08-07 00:17 -0400
                Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-08-07 11:08 +0000
                Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-08-07 06:50 -0800
                Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-08-07 14:57 +0000
    Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2026-08-07 22:15 +0200
  Re: Need help getting Windows to list all files inside every APK and then look for advertising SDKs JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2026-08-07 22:05 +0700

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