Timing a command's execution in PowerShell

Question

Is there a simple way to time the execution of a command in PowerShell, like the 'time' command in Linux?
I came up with this:

$s=Get-Date; .\do_something.ps1 ; $e=Get-Date; ($e - $s).TotalSeconds 

But I would like something simpler like

time .\do_something.ps1 

Answer 1

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 

Answer 2

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