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've found this:

  sc query "ServiceName" | findstr RUNNING  

seems to do roughly the right thing. But, I'm worried that's not generalized enough to work on non-english operating systems.