PowerShell show elapsed time

Question

I have a script that kicks off an event and waits for the user to press any key to stop the script execution. I was trying to find a way to show a timer (how long the script has been running) while waiting for user input at Read-Host. Is there a way to accomplish this?

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This works

$Time = [System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch]::StartNew() while ($true) {     $CurrentTime = $Time.Elapsed     write-host $([string]::Format("`rTime: {0:d2}:{1:d2}:{2:d2}",                                   $CurrentTime.hours,                                   $CurrentTime.minutes,                                   $CurrentTime.seconds)) -nonewline     sleep 1     if ($Host.UI.RawUI.KeyAvailable -and ("q" -eq $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("IncludeKeyUp,NoEcho").Character)) {         Write-Host "Exiting now"         break;     } } 

Answer 1

This gave me the output I was after :)

$StartTime = $(get-date)  $elapsedTime = $(get-date) - $StartTime  $totalTime = "{0:HH:mm:ss}" -f ([datetime]$elapsedTime.Ticks)