PowerShell Measure-Command
Recently I was putting together some VM provisioning scripts, was running and re-running these as a part of testing and wanted to measure how long it takes for some of these scripts to run. PowerShell one-liner to the rescue!
Measure-Command {Start-Sleep -s 10; Write-Output "Done!" | Out-Host}
This snippet consists of three parts. Measure-Command {} which is the bit that does the measuring. Start-Sleep -s 10; Write-Output "Done!" is the command that I’m executing - sleeps for 10 seconds and then prints out “Done!”. Finally, output from the executed command is redirected to the command line like so | Out-Host.