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It is a bad idea to try to parse sc output that way, because it needs too much effort. Just use PowerShell instead, e.g.<br />

<pre><code id="code-20-42698551-1">powershell &quot;get-service | format-table -auto name, status&quot;</code></pre>
or
<pre><code id="code-20-42698551-2">powershell &quot;get-service | Select name, status | Out-File Output.txt&quot;</code></pre>
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It is a bad idea to try to parse sc output that way, because it needs too much effort. Just use PowerShell instead, e.g.


powershell "get-service | format-table -auto name, status"

or

powershell "get-service | Select name, status | Out-File Output.txt"

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How do I use that for one service? the service I am looking for in the &quot;Windows Agent Service&quot;
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How do I use that for one service? the service I am looking for in the "Windows Agent Service"

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and how do I add a list of computernames ?
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and how do I add a list of computernames ?

Cyber Security

Chris Miller

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CN.txt - List of computernames<br />
services.txt - list of services to check<br />
<br />
@echo off<br />
&nbsp;for /f %%a in (CN.txt) do (<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;echo %%a &gt;&gt;&nbsp;Output.txt<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;for /f &quot;tokens=*&quot; %%b in (services.txt) do (<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;sc \\%%a query &quot;%%~b&quot; &gt;&gt;&nbsp;Output.txt<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;)<br />
&nbsp;)<br />
&nbsp;pause<br />
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How do I clean this script up to only show the Service_Name and state?
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CN.txt - List of computernames
services.txt - list of services to check

@echo off
 for /f %%a in (CN.txt) do (
   echo %%a >> Output.txt
   for /f "tokens=*" %%b in (services.txt) do (
     sc \\%%a query "%%~b" >> Output.txt
   )
 )
 pause

How do I clean this script up to only show the Service_Name and state?

SC Query Script to only show service name and state

Batch files are text files containing a script of commands that are executed by the command interpreter on DOS, OS/2 and Windows systems. Most commonly, they are used to perform a series of functions that are repeated -- copying a set of files created daily with one step, for example.