powershelltimespan

Arithmetic with PowerShell Timespans

PowerShell Timespans are great for quickly displaying durations, as in:

$starttime = $(get-date)
{ do some processing here }
write-host "Duration: $((new-timespan $starttime $(get-date)).tostring())"

But if I did $loopcount iterations of processing during that timeframe, how do I divide the duration by $loopcount to get the average duration per iteration?

Solution

  • A slightly nicer way if doing this (if you don't need output from your script block) would probably be:

    1..$loopcount | ForEach-Object {
    Measure-Command {
        # do some processing here
    }
} | Measure-Object -Average TotalSeconds