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 isotherwise consumed by Measure-Command.