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surendra
surendra

Reputation: 611

Find time difference in minutes using a PowerShell script

I am trying to find the time difference between the last updated time and current time for a file. How do I extract TotalMinutes data from the output?

$Date = Get-Date
$Files = gci "C:\Users\ABCD\Documents\command.txt"
ForEach ($File in $Files){
    $FileDate = $File.LastWriteTime
}
$DURATION=$Date-$FileDate
Echo $DURATION

Output is coming as below
Days              : 0
Hours             : 2
Minutes           : 21
Seconds           : 37
Milliseconds      : 311
Ticks             : 84973115857
TotalDays         : 0.0983485137233796
TotalHours        : 2.36036432936111
TotalMinutes      : 141.621859761667
TotalSeconds      : 8497.3115857
TotalMilliseconds : 8497311.5857

Upvotes: 14

Views: 53587

Answers (5)

Tony
Tony

Reputation: 2754

Assuming the file exists, here's a one-liner:

((Get-Date) - (Get-ChildItem 'C:\Users\ABCD\Documents\command.txt').LastWriteTime).TotalMinutes

You can either let it echo to the screen as is, or you can assign it to a variable if you want to retain it.

Upvotes: 1

dripcode
dripcode

Reputation: 71

$StartDate=(GET-DATE)
#wait a few seconds
$EndDate=(GET-DATE)
$diff = NEW-TIMESPAN -Start $StartDate -End $EndDate
Write-Output "Time difference is: $diff"
$diff
#to see minutes only
$diff.Minutes
#or seconds
$diff.Seconds

Upvotes: 6

user14631926
user14631926

Reputation: 31

You can use the below command to get just TotalMinutes

$mins = $DURATION.TotalMinutes

Upvotes: 3

xXhRQ8sD2L7Z
xXhRQ8sD2L7Z

Reputation: 1716

You will not need a loop, after getting a single file:

$Files = gci "C:\Users\ABCD\Documents\command.txt"
ForEach ($File in $Files){
    $FileDate = $File.LastWriteTime
}

In this case, $Files might as well be $File, making the loop completely redundant:

$File = gci "C:\Users\ABCD\Documents\command.txt"
$FileDate = $File.LastWriteTime

In the exact same way you extracted LastWriteTime, you can get TotalMinutes:

$Date = Get-Date
$DURATION = $Date - $FileDate
$DURATION.TotalMinutes

Upvotes: 13

TravisEz13
TravisEz13

Reputation: 2413

Here is a complete answer:

$Date = Get-Date
$Files = gci "C:\Users\ABCD\Documents\command.txt"
ForEach ($File in $Files){
    $FileDate = $File.LastWriteTime
}
$DURATION=$Date-$FileDate
Write-Host "$($DURATION.TotalMinutes)"

Upvotes: 2

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