Stop a continuous Ping - powershell

Question

I am trying to create Powershell script where
User will provide text file with ipaddress/ hostname and test Duration
• Script should take each ip address/ Hostname, open cmd/ powershell and run ping test
For this I created a bat file containing
ping -t %1 |find /v ""|cmd /q /v:on /c "for /l %%a in (0) do (set "data="&set /p "data="&if defined data echo(!Date! !time! !data!)" > %2
In powershell I am running it
$Script = "C:\Ping\pingTest\pingstat.cmd $hostName $outputFile"
$Runpingtest = cmd.exe /c $script
Please give me ideas to spot the contiguous ping as per test duration

Answer 1

You can't stop a continuous ping without signaling the ping process to stop. You would need to use ping /n COUNT for a number of pings.
But you can do something similar with pure PowerShell and Test-NetConnection, then export the results to CSV like so:
1..$pingCount | Foreach-Object {
Test-NetConnection google.com |
Select-Object #{
Name='Date'
Expression={ Get-Date -Format 'ddd MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss.ff' }
}, ComputerName, SourceAddress, RemoteAddress, PingSucceeded,
#{
Name='Latency'
Expression={ "$($_.PingReplyDetails.RoundTripTime) ms" }
}
} | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation C:\Path\To\file.csv
Note that Test-NetConnection doesn't have a -Count parameter, which is why the my above code wraps the Test-NetConnection call in a loop. You may also need to adjust the Get-Date format for your locale as my code uses a date formation suitable in the US.
Also note that I'm using Select-Object to create custom Date and Latency columns, as Test-NetConnection doesn't provide the current time it was run, and the ping latency is buried in a nested object.