PowerShell With Uptime – Getting Days Only

There is a handy and free tool to check your system’s uptime called “Uptime”.  (Clever, no?)  It can be downloaded at http://uptimeexe.codeplex.com.

While it is very easy to use (just navigate to it in a command window and type “uptime”), it doesn’t give much of an option for formatting the output to include only the days.  So, a simple workaround is to use some “replace” commands within PowerShell and only output the number of days.  Here’s how: