Writing all running services to a .csv file with WS2003

Question

I want to list all the current running services and output it to a .csv file. Does anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

A bit of good old shell script:

@echo off
setlocal
set SERVICES=
for /f "skip=1 tokens=*" %%S in ('%SystemRoot%\System32\net.exe start') do call :ADD_SERVICE %%S
echo Running services are : [%SERVICES%]
endlocal
goto END

:ADD_SERVICE
set SERVICE=%*
if "%SERVICE%" == "" goto END
if "%SERVICE%" == "The command completed successfully." goto END
set SERVICES=%SERVICES%%SERVICE%,
goto END

:END

Answer 2

Might I be evil and suggest the Cygwin variant:

net start | sed -e '1,2d' -e ':a' -e N -e 's/\n  /,/' -e ta > services.csv

Answer 3

most basic way would to do this would be;

net start > services.csv

Sysinternals has a lot of tools which will provider more granular detailed information from within your processes. Such as PsService , the same function piping the result to a file will export as needed "> filename.extension"

Answer 4

I have a simpler command than the above examples. WMI is installed by default on Windows XP or Windows 2k3 and above, although to use the wmic.exe program, the machine may need to initialize before local operation. From a command prompt issue the command:

WMIC path Win32_Service where state='Running' get /format:csv

or, for a machine on the network:

WMIC /node:myserver Win32_Service where state='Running' get /format:csv

Redirect the output to a file of your choice.

Changing /format:csv to /format:list makes a human readable output. One of my servers gives this for its HP Insight service:

AcceptPause=TRUE
AcceptStop=TRUE
Caption=HP Insight Storage Agents
CheckPoint=0
CreationClassName=Win32_Service
Description=HP Insight Storage Agents
DesktopInteract=FALSE
DisplayName=HP Insight Storage Agents
ErrorControl=Normal
ExitCode=0
InstallDate=
Name=CqMgStor
PathName=C:\WINDOWS\system32\CpqMgmt\cqmgstor\cqmgstor.exe
ProcessId=1836
ServiceSpecificExitCode=0
ServiceType=Own Process
Started=TRUE
StartMode=Auto
StartName=LocalSystem
State=Running
Status=OK
SystemCreationClassName=Win32_ComputerSystem
SystemName=CRL500
TagId=0
WaitHint=0

Most likely, you have no interest in many of these attributes and values. Assuming you only want Name, Caption and Pathname for each running process, you might issue the following command specifying only these attributes:

WMIC /node:myserver path Win32_Service where state='Running' get name,caption,pathname /format:csv

Rob