{"id":1023,"date":"2014-07-10T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/07\/10\/powertip-count-a-range-of-seconds-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2014-07-10T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-count-a-range-of-seconds-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-count-a-range-of-seconds-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Count a Range of Seconds with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to count a range of seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to count a range of seconds of increasing duration?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the range operator to create a range of numbers, then pipe the results to the&nbsp;<b>ForEach-Object<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; inside a script block call&nbsp;<b>Start-Sleep<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">1..5 | ForEach {Start-Sleep -Seconds $_ ; &quot;$_ seconds&quot;}<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to count a range of seconds. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to count a range of seconds of increasing duration? &nbsp;Use the range operator to create a range of numbers, then pipe the results to the&nbsp;ForEach-Object&nbsp;cmdlet &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; inside a script block call&nbsp;Start-Sleep: 1..5 | ForEach {Start-Sleep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to count a range of seconds. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to count a range of seconds of increasing duration? &nbsp;Use the range operator to create a range of numbers, then pipe the results to the&nbsp;ForEach-Object&nbsp;cmdlet &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; inside a script block call&nbsp;Start-Sleep: 1..5 | ForEach {Start-Sleep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}