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

Use Cygwin Bash with:

sc query "SomeService" |grep -qo RUNNING && echo "SomeService is running." || echo "SomeService is not running!"

(Make sure you have sc.exe in your PATH.)