Summing Up Multiple Objects

PowerShell is a dynamic language, and as Forest Gump put it, you never know what you get. For example, when you try and figure out the battery charge on a notebook, the following command may return null, one or multiple results depending on the number of batteries in your system:

To find out the overall charge of all batteries in your system, simply use Measure-Object. Measure-Object happily accepts an arbitrary number of (equal) objects and aggregates information. To find out the overall charge remaining in all of your batteries, use this:

Note that this call will fail if there is no battery at all in your system because then Measure-Object is unable to find a EstimatedchargeRemaining property.