How to get all Windows service names starting with a common word?

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There are some windows services hosted whose display name starts with a common name (here NATION). For example:

NATION-CITY
NATION-STATE
NATION-Village

Is there some command to get all the services like 'NATION-'. Finally I need to stop, start and restart such services using the command promt.

Powershell is installed in your machine ? Server or Workstation? SO ? — Kiquenet, Nov 27 '15 at 08:18

score 156 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 05 '18 at 10:20

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sc queryex type= service state= all | find /i "NATION"

use /i for case insensitive search
the white space after type=is deliberate and required

edited Apr 05 '18 at 10:20

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answered Dec 28 '12 at 07:28

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btw, the find is case sensitive, to do a better search, use find /i "Nation" http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/find.mspx?mfr=true – fedmich Oct 04 '13 at 03:29
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remember to use the spaces after type= and state=, I didn't :( – Guy Lowe Nov 19 '14 at 04:08
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Note that find will search on service names and also display names - To Filter just service names: `sc queryex type= service state= all | find /i "SERVICE_NAME: NATION"`;). – shA.t Sep 19 '16 at 08:37
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`sc` might be shorthand for `Set-Content`. Use `sc.exe` if this is the case – Brad Dec 27 '17 at 20:35
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Awesome. Coming from Linux the Windows cmd line landscape makes no sense so it's all magic sauce. – BaseZen Mar 08 '18 at 18:45
Is there any way to see the services exe paths? – Shayan May 18 '19 at 14:39

score 28 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 05 '18 at 10:19

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Using PowerShell, you can use the following

Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.displayName.StartsWith("NATION-")} | Select name

This will show a list off all services which displayname starts with "NATION-".

You can also directly stop or start the services;

Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.displayName.StartsWith("NATION-")} | Stop-Service
Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.displayName.StartsWith("NATION-")} | Start-Service

or simply

Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.displayName.StartsWith("NATION-")} | Restart-Service

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answered Dec 14 '12 at 16:27

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Thanks Wimmel for the reply, but instead of shell scripting i am searching to create a simple .cmd file . some command like SC STOP SERVICE_STARTS_WITH("NATION-") – Chandan Kumar Dec 15 '12 at 17:47
[code]Get-Service -Name *NATION-*[/code] is simpler and better! – Marcelo Luz Sep 23 '19 at 12:54

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 17 '22 at 16:53

Another way of doing it, if you don't like the old PowerShell version.

# Create an array of all services running
$GetService = get-service
    
# Iterate throw each service on a host
foreach ($Service in $GetService)
{
    # Get all services starting with "MHS"
    if ($Service.DisplayName.StartsWith("MHS"))
    {
        # Show status of each service
        Write-Host ($Service.DisplayName, $Service.Status, $Service.StartType) -Separator "`t`t`t`t`t|`t"
        
        # Check if a service is service is RUNNING.  
        # Restart all "Automatic" services that currently stopped
        if ($Service.StartType -eq 'Automatic' -and $Service.status -eq 'Stopped' )
        {
            Restart-Service -Name $Service.DisplayName
            Write-Host $Service.DisplayName "|`thas been restarted!"   
        }
    }
}

score -3 · Answer 4 · edited May 11 '16 at 22:17

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Save it as a .ps1 file and then execute

powershell -file "path\to your\start stop nation service command file.ps1"

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answered May 10 '16 at 22:42

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How to get all Windows service names starting with a common word?

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