Quering Services

[wardy]

Hi all, just getting into Autoit and so far really like it but have gotten well stuck on this.

Trying to query some remote services using SC. Works a treat if the service name has no spaces in it. But, if the service name has a space it throws an error.

Any sugestions or points would be most welcome!

This works a treat

$service = "Messenger"

Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & "sc \\" & "Exchange1 " & "query " & $service & " >>C:\Scripts\AVCheck\test.txt", "", @SW_HIDE)

This doesn't!

$service = "McAfee GroupShield"

Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & "sc \\" & "Exchange1 " & "query " & $service & " >>C:\Scripts\AVCheck\test.txt", "", @SW_HIDE)

[ResNullius]

This works a treat

$service = "Messenger"

Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & "sc \\" & "Exchange1 " & "query " & $service & " >>C:\Scripts\AVCheck\test.txt", "", @SW_HIDE)

This doesn't!

$service = "McAfee GroupShield"

Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & "sc \\" & "Exchange1 " & "query " & $service & " >>C:\Scripts\AVCheck\test.txt", "", @SW_HIDE)

Hi, and welcome to a great community of users.

Commands, filenames, and/or options with spaces in them must be enclosed in quotes when used on the command line. So, you can do this:

$service = "McAfee GroupShield"
$service = CHR(34) & $service & CHR(34) ; chr(34) is ascii code for " quotation mark
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Hope that helps

[wardy]

It certainly does help! Thank you for your time and on being so clear,

ASCII codes huh.. I'll get reading... )

Ward

[herewasplato]

Welcome to the forum.

You don't need ComSpec to run sc.exe and you don't have to write the output of sc.exe to a file. AutoIt can "read" the output of sc.exe via the STDIO functions. Here is a small sample of how that can be done:

$service = "messenger"
$PID = Run("sc query " & $service, "", "", 3)

While 1
    $line = StdoutRead($PID)
    If @error Then ExitLoop
    MsgBox(0, "STDOUT read:", $line)

    $var1 = StringInStr($line, "STATE   ")
    $var2 = StringMid($line, $var1, 22)
    $var3 = StringRight($var2, 1)
    MsgBox(0, "", ">>>" & $var3 & "<<<")
WEnd

...but AutoIt can also interface directly with Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) so you might want to look at this thread: http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...;showtopic=6487

...enjoy AutoIt...

[wardy]

Wow, AutoIT gets even better! Thanks to all who've helped with this, going to have a play and incorporate this into my work.

Cheers!

Wardy