I would like to be able to query whether or not a service is running from a windows batch file. I know I can use:
sc query ‘ServiceName’
but, this dumps out some text. What I really want is for it to set the errorlevel environment variable so that I can take action on that.
Do you know a simple way I can do this?
UPDATE
Thanks for the answers so far. I’m worried the solutions that parse the text may not work on non English operating systems. Does anybody know a way around this, or am I going to have to bite the bullet and write a console program to get this right.
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