{"id":4090,"date":"2013-02-28T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/02\/28\/powertip-determine-how-long-a-powershell-command-takes\/"},"modified":"2013-02-28T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-determine-how-long-a-powershell-command-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-determine-how-long-a-powershell-command-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Determine How Long a PowerShell Command Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Figure out how long a Windows PowerShell command takes to run.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;You want to know how long a particular Windows PowerShell command takes to run so you can optimize your code. How can you do this?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>Use the&nbsp;<strong>Measure-Command<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the code in the&nbsp;<strong>&ndash;expression<\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>script block.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">Measure-Command -Expression {Get-Process}<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Figure out how long a Windows PowerShell command takes to run. &nbsp;You want to know how long a particular Windows PowerShell command takes to run so you can optimize your code. How can you do this? Use the&nbsp;Measure-Command&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the code in the&nbsp;&ndash;expression&nbsp;script block. Measure-Command -Expression {Get-Process} &nbsp;<\/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":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Figure out how long a Windows PowerShell command takes to run. &nbsp;You want to know how long a particular Windows PowerShell command takes to run so you can optimize your code. How can you do this? Use the&nbsp;Measure-Command&nbsp;cmdlet and specify the code in the&nbsp;&ndash;expression&nbsp;script block. Measure-Command -Expression {Get-Process} &nbsp;<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}