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