How can I extract "Path to executable" of all services with PowerShell

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Abilash A picture Abilash A · Jun 27, 2014 · Viewed 59.4k times · Source 
Get-Service *sql* | sort DisplayName | out-file c:/servicelist.txt

I have a one line PowerShell script to extract list of all services running on my local machine, now, in addition to displaying "Status", "Name" and "DisplayName" I also want to display "Path to executable"

Answer

David Martin picture David Martin · Jun 27, 2014

I think you'll need to resort to WMI:

Get-WmiObject win32_service | ?{$_.Name -like '*sql*'} | select Name, DisplayName, State, PathName

Update If you want to perform some manipulation on the selected data, you can use calculated properties as described here.

For example if you just wanted the text within quotes for the Pathname, you could split on double quotes and take the array item 1:

Get-WmiObject win32_service | ?{$_.Name -like '*sql*'} | select Name, DisplayName, @{Name="Path"; Expression={$_.PathName.split('"')[1]}} | Format-List

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