in windows,how to use? search anywhere,nothing.

[linghp]

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[JakeWharton]

It's just a python script. You can run with python pidcat.py.

[notsatyarth]

I face a similar issue.Running python pidcat.py provides me the same output as adb logcat (This is the expected behaviour ).

However
python pidcat.py apptag yields no output

[jsbeckr]

Easiest is to install cygwin and use its terminal.

[notsatyarth]

I solved this issue by using a different version of python. However the windows terminal renders this without colored text and line wrapping.Is there anyway to overcome that?

[sergiiz]

Same here, how to setup colored text output for Windows without cygwin?

[notsatyarth]

Windows 10 solves this with Bash.And i think even the default terminal application supports colors now .You could also try other terminal apps for windows. But the default one will not support colours

[castrojr913]

@droidekas Which version of python did you try? I tried with 2.7 and 3.2, it doesn't work.

[notsatyarth]

@castrojr913 ,I used 3.4.4

[liouvilles]

i run python pidcat.py in windows but it doesn't work

[Nexen23]

For some reason, if I write in cmd python pidcat.py - it fails with :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Android\SDK\platform-tools\pidcat.py", line 199, in <module>
    adb = subprocess.Popen(adb_command, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
  File "E:\Packages\Python35\lib\subprocess.py", line 950, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "E:\Packages\Python35\lib\subprocess.py", line 1220, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] **here says "can't find file"**

But if I write .bat file with same content and run it as it is (without cmd), than it runs okay (but no colorization/wrapping).

[Nexen23]

As @jsbeckr suggested, only cygwin helped

[namchuai]

Using cmder
http://cmder.net/

[yygutn]

i tried cmder/cygwin/powershell
however, python pidcat.py apptag no output
my python version is 3.5

[gmkado]

I dug into the script and found two changes that made it work for me. I'm using python 3.6

To get the script to recognize package change this line:

catchall_package = filter(lambda package: package.find(":") == -1, package)

to

catchall_package = list(filter(lambda package: package.find(":") == -1, package))

because of this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21715268/list-returned-by-map-function-disappears-after-one-use

To get the formatting to look right in my command prompt I took out the encode command on the last line:

 print(linebuf)

[barryzzz]

i run python pidcat.py com.oprah.bees.android in windows but it doesn't work

[ericksprengel]

I'm using in cygwin, but I needed to revert this change: 6b6034a

From:

print(linebuf.encode('utf-8'))

To:

print(linebuf)

It'll print colorized string instead of printing the bytes:

string:

bytes:

P.S.: I'm using python 3.6.4

[ericksprengel]

Before start trying with "Bash On Ubuntu On Windows", please check if it was added support to USB devices: https://askubuntu.com/a/826642

[Torvin]

I added this to the script to enable native VT100 support on Windows 10:

from ctypes import *

def enableVT100():
  STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE = -11
  ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING = 4

  stdout = windll.kernel32.GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE)
  if stdout == -1:
    raise WinError()

  mode = c_uint()
  if windll.kernel32.GetConsoleMode(stdout, byref(mode)) == 0:
    raise WinError()

  mode.value = mode.value | ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING

  if windll.kernel32.SetConsoleMode(stdout, mode) == 0:
    raise WinError()

enableVT100()

Tested on Window 10 v1709, worked like a charm. No Bash or Cygwin required.

[Torvin]

I forked this repo and included the above VT100 enabling code: https://github.com/Torvin/pidcat-win10

@JakeWharton will a pull request with my changes be accepted?

[nicolasjafelle]

@Torvin your fork works great but I am not able to use the package filtering. if I run python.exe .\pidcat.py in both Powershell and git bash I can see all the logs with colors and format but all the logcat output.

If i want to see my package only i cannot see any log at all for example: python.exe .\pidcat.py com.my.package

Do you know if something has changed with latest android 10 release? Thanks in advance!

[watery]

I just wanted to say that the above-mentioned change made the script (downloaded just now) work for me on Windows 10, Python 3.7.6 in a plain (cmd.exe) command prompt. Previously, pidcat <app-package> produced no output.

I dug into the script and found two changes that made it work for me. I'm using python 3.6

To get the script to recognize package change this line:

catchall_package = filter(lambda package: package.find(":") == -1, package)

to

catchall_package = list(filter(lambda package: package.find(":") == -1, package))

because of this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21715268/list-returned-by-map-function-disappears-after-one-use

To get the formatting to look right in my command prompt I took out the encode command on the last line:

 print(linebuf)