This is an easy one - use measure-command CommandLet
measure-command {
# do your long running action in here, like loading a file
@file = get-content “c:\MyFile.txt”
}
Output Looks like this:
Days : 0
Hours : 0
Minutes : 0
Seconds : 1
Milliseconds : 638
Ticks : 16386148
TotalDays : 1.89654490740741E–05
TotalHours : 0.000455170777777778
TotalMinutes : 0.0273102466666667
TotalSeconds : 1.6386148
TotalMilliseconds : 1638.6148
You can also format the output by piping the output into the Filter-Table commandlet
measure-command {
# do your long running action in here, like loading a file
@file = get-content “c:\MyFile.txt”
} | ft -Property Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Milliseconds
Output Looks like this:
Hours Minutes Seconds Milliseconds
—– ——- ——- ————
0 0 1 567
15 Jun 2010
John Ryan
Powershell