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

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

Save it as a .ps1 file and then execute

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