{"id":1318,"date":"2014-05-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/05\/18\/powertip-time-parts-of-powershell-scripts\/"},"modified":"2014-05-18T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-time-parts-of-powershell-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-time-parts-of-powershell-scripts\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Time Parts of PowerShell Scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Learn how to time different parts of your Windows PowerShell scripts.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to find which parts of my script are taking the longest
          to complete so I can focus on improving them?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, Use the Measure-Command<\/b> cmdlet to time any section of script in between two curly braces:<\/p>\n

Measure-Command {Start-Sleep -Seconds 5}<\/p>\n

Windows PowerShell automatically outputs the time for that section of script:<\/p>\n

Days              : 0<\/p>\n

Hours             : 0<\/p>\n

Minutes           : 0<\/p>\n

Seconds           : 5<\/p>\n

Milliseconds      : 7<\/p>\n

Ticks             : 50072804<\/p>\n

TotalDays         : 5.79546342592593E-05<\/p>\n

TotalHours        : 0.00139091122222222<\/p>\n

TotalMinutes      : 0.0834546733333333<\/p>\n

TotalSeconds      : 5.0072804<\/p>\n

TotalMilliseconds : 5007.2804<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Learn how to time different parts of your Windows PowerShell scripts.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find which parts of my script are taking the longest           to complete so I can focus on improving them?  Use the Measure-Command cmdlet to time any section of script in between two curly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[512,56,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-dan-sheehan","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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