Timing a command's execution in PowerShell
Yup.
Measure-Command { .\do_something.ps1 }
Note that one minor downside of Measure-Command
is that you see no stdout
output.
[Update, thanks to @JasonMArcher] You can fix that by piping the command output to some commandlet that writes to the host, e.g. Out-Default
so it becomes:
Measure-Command { .\do_something.ps1 | Out-Default }
Another way to see the output would be to use the .NET Stopwatch
class like this:
$sw = [Diagnostics.Stopwatch]::StartNew()
.\do_something.ps1
$sw.Stop()
$sw.Elapsed
You can also get the last command from history and subtract its EndExecutionTime
from its StartExecutionTime
.
.\do_something.ps1
$command = Get-History -Count 1
$command.EndExecutionTime - $command.StartExecutionTime
Use Measure-Command
Example
Measure-Command { <your command here> | Out-Host }
The pipe to Out-Host
allows you to see the output of the command, which is
otherwise consumed by Measure-Command
.