How to test whether a service is running from the command line

Question

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\"

Answer 1

I would suggest WMIC Service WHERE "Name = 'SericeName'" GET Started

or WMIC Service WHERE "Name = 'ServiceName'" GET ProcessId (ProcessId will be zero if service isn't started)

You can set the error level based on whether the former returns "TRUE" or the latter returns nonzero