Filter services when calling Get-Service - powershell

Question

I did this in the past, and can't remember the correct command (I think I was using instring or soemthign?)
I want to list all the windows services running that have the word 'sql' in them.
Listing all the windows services is:
Get-Service
Is there a instring function that does this?

Answer 1

Get-Service -Name *sql*
A longer alternative would be:
Get-Service | where-object {$_.name -like '*sql*'}
Many cmdlets offer built in filtering and support wildcards. If you check the help files (Get-Help Get-Service -full), you will see
-name <string[]>
Specifies the service names of services to be retrieved. Wildcards are
permitted. By default, Get-Service gets all of the services on the comp
uter.
Required? false
Position? 1
Default value *
Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
Accept wildcard characters? true
Usually if filtering is built in to the cmdlet, that is the preferred way to go, since it is often faster and more efficient.
In this case, there might not be too much of a performance benefit, but in V2, where you could be pulling services from a remote computer and filtering there would be the preferred method (less data to send back to the calling computer).

Answer 2

You can get all the services that are running and having words sql.
Get-Service | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq "Running"} | Where-Object {$_.Name -like "*sql*"}
If you want more information, see this (not much difference)
http://nisanthkv.blog.com/2012/06/29/get-services-using-powershell
Hope it helps...

Answer 3

Please enter below command:
Get-Service -Name '*<search string>*'

Answer 4

Above answers are great, but this is more useful:
Get-WmiObject -ComputerName <INSERT COMPUTER NAME> -Class Win32_Service | where-object {$_.name -like '*sql*'}
It allows for this query on remote computers.

Answer 5

The Search String might be in either Display Name or Service Name (e.g. searching Service Name for "*SQL*" does not include the SQL Integration Services ...) so I filter both:
get-service | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like "*MySearchString*" -or $_.ServiceName -like "*MySearchString*"}