Windows command to get service status?

Question

I need to know the status of a service at the end of my batch script which restarts services using \"net stop thingie\" and \"net start thingie\".

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Answer 1

Have you tried sc.exe?

C:\> for /f "tokens=2*" %a in ('sc query audiosrv ^| findstr STATE') do echo %b
4  RUNNING

C:\> for /f "tokens=2*" %a in ('sc query sharedaccess ^| findstr STATE') do echo %b
1  STOPPED

Note that inside a batch file you'd double each percent sign.