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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:30:03 -0800
From: David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
Subject: Re: Listing services
In-reply-to: <200503041150.14903.colin@breame.net>
To: Colin JN Breame <colin AT breame DOT net>
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On 3/4/2005 3:50 AM, Colin JN Breame wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Anyone know how to list the names and descriptions of all the services on the
> system?
>
> Cheers,

I do it with the following script which uses /proc.

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#!/bin/sh
usage() {
  cat <<EOF
usage: `basename $0` [-n] [--]
  -n: Display names
EOF
}

displayNames() { false; }
while getopts :n OPT; do
  case $OPT in
    n|+n)
      displayNames() { true; }
      ;;
    *)
      usage
      exit 2
  esac
done
shift `expr $OPTIND - 1`

if displayNames; then
  cd /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services
  for s in `ls -1 | sort -f`; do
    displayName=""
    if [ -f $s/DisplayName ]; then
      displayName=`cat /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/$s/DisplayName`
    fi
    echo "$s" | awk '{printf("%-30s: ", $1)}'
    echo $displayName
  done
else
  ls -1 /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services | sort -f
fi

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