Question

I want to fetch all service_name and its status without using any 3rd party tool. So far SC command was good enough to fetch one of the values, something like

sc query | findstr SERVICE_NAME

but I also need STATUS for each SERVICE_NAME listed.

Answer 1

Here’s a command that should do the job:

for /f "tokens=2" %s in ('sc query state^= all ^| find "SERVICE_NAME"') do
    @(for /f "tokens=4" %t in ('sc query %s ^| find "STATE     "') do @echo %s is %t)

How it works:

First sc query state= all | find "SERVICE_NAME" is run. This command is designed to give you the service names, one per line. The carets ^ (which I have removed here) are necessary in order to escape the special characters that you want to affect the sc command and not the for command itself.

Then the initial for /f parses the above output to remove the standard “SERVICE_NAME:” prefix from each line, giving you pure service names. At this point the output looks like this:

C:\>for /f "tokens=2" %s in ('sc query state^= all ^| find "SERVICE_NAME"') do @echo %s
AdobeFlashPlayerUpdateSvc
AeLookupSvc
ALG
AppIDSvc
Appinfo
AppMgmt
aspnet_state
AudioEndpointBuilder
AudioSrv

This output is then fed to the next for /f, which runs sc query servicename, finds the line with the state, and isolates the 4th “word” (the current state).

Finally, the name of each service is printed along with its state (at this point you can choose to do something different if you wish).

Important note: If you run this inside a batch file, the percent signs (e.g. at %s) need to be doubled.