How do I measure execution time of a command on the Windows command line

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Is there a built-in way to measure execution time of a command on the Windows command line

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Having Perl installed the hires solution available, run:

C:\BATCH>time.pl "echo Fine result"
0.01063
Fine result

STDERR comes before measured seconds

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Time::HiRes qw();
my $T0 = [ Time::HiRes::gettimeofday ];

my $stdout = `@ARGV`;

my $time_elapsed = Time::HiRes::tv_interval( $T0 );

print $time_elapsed, "\n";
print $stdout;

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Not quite as elegant as some of the functionality on Unix  but create a cmd file which looks like    echo off time  lt  nul yourexecutable exe  gt  c  temp output txt time  lt  nul rem on newer windows system you can try time  T   That will display the start and stop times like so   The current time is  10 31 57 92 Enter the new time  The current time is  10 32 05 94 Enter the new time

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Using a sub to return time in hundredths of second    tiemeit cmd  echo off Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion  call  clock     call your command  or more  gt  null to pipe this batch after your command  call  clock  echo  timed  pause goto eof   clock if not defined timed set timed 0 for  F  tokens 1-4 delims        a in    time    do    set  A timed       1  a - 100    60    1  b - 100     60    1  c - 100      100    1  d - 100 -  timed     goto eof

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my code gives you the running time in milliseconds  up to 24 hrs  it is locale insensitive  and accounts for negative values if code runs through midnight  it uses delayed expansion  and should be saved in a cmd bat file   before your code   SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion  for  f  tokens 2 delims      I in   wmic os get localdatetime  format list   do set t   I set  a t1    t  8 1  36000    t  9 1  3600    t  10 1  600    t  11 1  60    t  12 1  10    t  13 1   amp  amp  set t1  t1  t  15 3    after your code   for  f  tokens 2 delims      I in   wmic os get localdatetime  format list   do set t   I set  a t2    t  8 1  36000    t  9 1  3600    t  10 1  600    t  11 1  60    t  12 1  10    t  13 1   amp  amp  set t2  t2  t  15 3  set  a t2- t1  amp  amp  if  t2  lss 0 set  a t2  24 3600000   if you want running time in HH mm ss 000 format  add   set  a  h t2 3600000 t2   3600000 m t2 60000 t2   60000   amp  amp  set t2 00000 t2  amp  amp  set t2  t2  -5  if  h  leq 9  set h 0 h    amp  amp  if  m  leq 9  set m 0 m   set t2  h   m   t2  0 2   t2  2 3   ENDLOCAL   variable t2 holds your running time  you can echo  t2  to display it

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echo off  amp  setlocal  set start  time   REM Do stuff to be timed here  REM Alternatively  uncomment the line below to be able to REM pass in the command to be timed when running this script  REM cmd  c     set end  time   REM Calculate time taken in seconds  to the hundredth of a second  REM Assumes start time and end time will be on the same day   set options  tokens 1-4 delims      for  f  options    a in    start    do       set  a start s   100  a    100  3600    100  b    100  60    100  c    100       set  a start hs 100  d    100    for  f  options    a in    end    do       set  a end s   100  a    100  3600    100  b    100  60    100  c    100       set  a end hs 100  d    100    set  a s  end s - start s  set  a hs  end hs - start hs   if  hs  lss 0       set  a s  s -1     set  a hs 100 hs    if 1 hs  lss 100 set hs 0 hs   echo  echo  Time taken   s   hs  secs echo

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If you are using Windows 2003  note that windows server 2008 and later are not supported  you can use The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit  which contains timeit exe that displays detailed execution stats   Here is an example  timing the command  quot timeit -  quot   C   gt timeit timeit -  Invalid switch -  Usage  TIMEIT  -f filename   -a   -c   -i   -d   -s   -t   -k keyname   -r keyname   -m mask   commandline     where         -f specifies the name of the database file where TIMEIT                  keeps a history of previous timings   Default is   timeit dat               -k specifies the keyname to use for this timing run               -r specifies the keyname to remove from the database   If                  keyname is followed by a comma and a number then it will                  remove the slowest  positive number  or fastest  negative                   times for that keyname                -a specifies that timeit should display average of all timings                  for the specified key                -i specifies to ignore non-zero return codes from program               -d specifies to show detail for average               -s specifies to suppress system wide counters               -t specifies to tabular output               -c specifies to force a resort of the data base               -m specifies the processor affinity mask  Version Number    Windows NT 5 2  Build 3790  Exit Time         7 38 am  Wednesday  April 15 2009 Elapsed Time      0 00 00 000 Process Time      0 00 00 015 System Calls      731 Context Switches  299 Page Faults       515 Bytes Read        0 Bytes Written     0 Bytes Other       298  You can get TimeIt in the Windows 2003 Resource Kit  It s not available for direct download from the Microsoft Download Center  but one can still get it from the arhive org - Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools

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The answer of driblio can be made a little shorter  though not much readable    echo off     Calculate the start timestamp set  time  time  set  a  hours 100  time  0 2   100  min 100  time  3 2   100  sec 100  time  6 2   100  cs   time  9 2  set  a  started  hours 60 60 100  min 60 100  sec 100  cs      yourCommandHere      Calculate the difference in cSeconds set  time  time  set  a  hours 100  time  0 2   100  min 100  time  3 2   100  sec 100  time  6 2   100  cs   time  9 2  set  a  duration  hours 60 60 100  min 60 100  sec 100  cs- started     Populate variables for rendering  100  needed for padding  set  a  hours  duration 60 60 100  min 100  duration 60 100  60  sec 100   duration 100  60  60   cs 100  duration  100  echo Done at    time  took     hours    min  -2    sec  -2    cs  -2     prints something like    Done at  12 37 53 70 took  0 02 03 55   To the remark of Luke Sampson this version is octal safe  though the task should be completed in 24 hours

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Another approach with powershell   echo off for  f   t in   powershell  quot  get-date  tofiletime   quot    do set mst   t  rem some commands  powershell   get-date  tofiletime   -  mst    this will print the execution time in milliseconds

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Lean and Mean  TIMER with Regional format  24h and mixed input support Adapting Aacini s substitution method body  no IF s  just one FOR  my regional fix   1  File timer bat placed somewhere in  PATH  or the current dir     echo off  amp  rem  AveYo  compact timer function with Regional format  24-hours and mixed input support if not defined timer set  if not    1       call set  timer set   1   else set  timer set  TIME   0     amp  goto  eof  if not    1       call set  timer end   1   else set  timer end  TIME   0     amp  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion for  f  tokens 1-6 delims 0123456789    i in    timer end  timer set    do  set CE   i amp set DE   k amp set CS   l amp set DS   n  set  TE  timer end  DE    100  100 1        amp  set  TS  timer set  DS    100  100 1   set A  T     10 TE  CE    100  60 1   100 -    10 TS  CS    100  60 1   100    amp  set A  T  T - 8640000-   set A  cc T  100 100 T  100 ss T  60 100 T  60 mm T  60 100 hh T 60 100  set  value  hh  1  CE  mm  1  CE  ss  1  DE  cc  1    amp  if    2      echo  value  endlocal  amp  set  timer end  value    amp  set  timer set    amp  goto  eof   Usage  timer  amp  echo start cmds  amp  timeout  t 3  amp  echo end cmds  amp  timer timer  amp  timer  23 23 23 00  timer  23 23 23 00   amp  timer timer  13 23 23 00   amp  timer  03 03 03 00  timer  amp  timer  0 00 00 00  no  amp  cmd  v on  c echo until midnight  timer end  Input can now be mixed  for those unlikely  but possible time format changes during execution  2  Function  timer bundled with the batch script  sample usage below       echo off set  TIMER call  timer   amp  rem short macro echo  echo EXAMPLE  call  timer timeout  t 3  gt nul  amp  rem Any process here   call  timer echo  echo SHORT MACRO   TIMER   amp  timeout  t 1  amp   TIMER   echo  echo TEST INPUT  set  start 22 04 04 58  set  end 04 22 44 22  echo  start    start  amp  echo  end    end call  timer   start   call  timer   end   echo   TIMER   amp   TIMER   00 00 00 00  no  echo UNTIL MIDNIGHT   timer end  echo  pause  exit  b      to test it  copy-paste both above and below code sections    rem  AveYo  compact timer function with Regional format  24-hours and mixed input support   timer Usage   call  timer  input - optional   no - optional    i Result printed on second call  saved to timer end  if not defined timer set  if not    1       call set  timer set   1   else set  timer set  TIME   0     amp  goto  eof  if not    1       call set  timer end   1   else set  timer end  TIME   0     amp  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion for  f  tokens 1-6 delims 0123456789    i in    timer end  timer set    do  set CE   i amp set DE   k amp set CS   l amp set DS   n  set  TE  timer end  DE    100  100 1        amp  set  TS  timer set  DS    100  100 1   set A  T     10 TE  CE    100  60 1   100 -    10 TS  CS    100  60 1   100    amp  set A  T  T - 8640000-   set A  cc T  100 100 T  100 ss T  60 100 T  60 mm T  60 100 hh T 60 100  set  value  hh  1  CE  mm  1  CE  ss  1  DE  cc  1    amp  if    2      echo  value  endlocal  amp  set  timer end  value    amp  set  timer set    amp  goto  eof   CE DE and CS DS stand for colon end  dot end and colon set  dot set - used for mixed format support

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If you have a command window open and call the commands manually  you can display a timestamp on each prompt  e g  prompt  d  t    P G  It gives you something like   23 03 2009 15 45 50 77 C   gt   If you have a small batch script that executes your commands  have an empty line before each command  e g    empty line  myCommand exe  next empty line  myCommand2 exe  You can calculate the execution time for each command by the time information in the prompt  The best would probably be to pipe the output to a textfile for further analysis  MyBatchFile bat  gt  output txt

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The following script uses only  cmd exe  and outputs the number of milliseconds from the time a pipeline is created to the time that the process preceding the script exits  i e   Type your command  and pipe the to the script  Example   timeout 3   runtime cmd  should yield something like  2990   If you need both the runtime output and the stdin output  redirect stdin before the pipe - ex   dir  s 1 temp txt   runtime cmd  would dump the output of the  dir  command to  temp txt  and would print the runtime to the console      --- runtime cmd ----  echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion     find target for recursive calls if not   1            shift  1     goto   1     exit  b       set pipeline initialization time set t1  time      wait for stdin more  gt  nul     set time at which stdin was ready set t2  time     parse t1 set t1  t1      set t1  t1      set t1  t1  0        parse t2 set t2  t2      set t2  t2      set t2  t2  0        calc difference pushd   dp0 for  f   i in    0 calc  t1    do for  f   j in    0 calc  t2    do       set  a t   j-  i     echo  t    popd exit  b goto  eof   calc set  a t   1  3600 1000     2  60 1000     3 1000    4  echo  t  goto  eof  endlocal

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Here is my method  no conversion and no ms  It is useful to determine encoding durations  limited to 24 hours though     echo off   start REM Start time storage set ST  time  echo Process started at  ST  echo  echo   REM Your commands REM Your commands REM Your commands   end REM Start Time Definition for  f  tokens 1-3 delims      a in    ST    do set  a h1   a  amp  set  a m1   b  amp  set  a s1   c  REM End Time Definition for  f  tokens 1-3 delims      a in    TIME    do set  a h2   a  amp  set  a m2   b  amp  set  a s2   c  REM Difference set  a h3  h2 - h1   amp  set  a m3  m2 - m1   amp  set  a s3  s2 - s1   REM Time Adjustment if  h3  LSS 0 set  a h3  h3  24 if  m3  LSS 0 set  a m3  m3  60  amp  set  a h3  h3 -1 if  s3  LSS 0 set  a s3  s3  60  amp  set  a m3  m3 -1  echo Start          ST  echo End          time  echo  echo Total          h3   m3   s3  echo  pause

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Since others are recommending installing things like freeware and PowerShell  you could also install Cygwin  which would give you access to many basic Unix commands like time   abe abe-PC    time sleep 5  real    0m5 012s user    0m0 000s sys 0m0 000s   Not sure how much overhead Cygwin adds

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The following script emulates  nix epoch time  but it is local and regional  It should handle calender edge cases including leap years  If Cygwin is available  epoch values can be compared by specifying the Cygwin option   I m in EST and the difference reported is 4 hours which is relatively correct  There are some interesting solutions to remove the TZ and regional dependencies  but nothing trivial that I noticed    ECHO off SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion         Emulates local epoch seconds        Call passing local date and time CALL  SECONDS   DATE     TIME   IF  SECONDS  LEQ 0 GOTO END     Not testing - print and exit IF NOT    1    cygwin        ECHO  SECONDS      GOTO END       Call on Cygwin to get epoch time FOR  F   c IN   C  cygwin bin date    s   DO SET EPOCH   c     Show the results ECHO Local Seconds   SECONDS  ECHO Epoch Seconds   EPOCH      Calculate difference between script and Cygwin SET  A HOURS   EPOCH - SECONDS   3600 SET  A FRAC   EPOCH - SECONDS    3600     Delta hours shown reflect TZ ECHO Delta Hours   HOURS  Remainder   FRAC   GOTO END   SECONDS SETLOCAL  EnableDelayedExpansion         Expecting values from caller     SET DATE   1     SET TIME   2         Emulate Unix epoch time without considering TZ     SET  SINCE YEAR 1970          Regional constraint  Expecting date and time in the following formats           Sun 03 08 2015   Day MM DD YYYY          20 04 53 64         HH MM SS     SET VALID DATE 0     ECHO  DATE    FINDSTR  R  C        0-9   0-9   0-9   0-9   0-9  0-9  0-9  0-9    gt  nul  amp  amp  SET VALID DATE 1     SET VALID TIME 0     ECHO  TIME    FINDSTR  R  C    0-9   0-9   0-9   0-9   0-9   0-9    gt  nul  amp  amp  SET VALID TIME 1     IF NOT   VALID DATE  VALID TIME     11            IF  VALID DATE  EQU 0  ECHO Unsupported Date value   DATE  1 gt  amp 2         IF  VALID TIME  EQU 0  ECHO Unsupported Time value   TIME  1 gt  amp 2         SET SECONDS 0         GOTO SECONDS END               Parse values     SET  YYYY  DATE  10 4       SET  MM  DATE  4 2       SET  DD  DATE  7 2       SET  HH  TIME  0 2       SET  NN  TIME  3 2       SET  SS  TIME  6 2       SET  A YEARS  YYYY - SINCE YEAR      SET  A DAYS  YEARS  365         Bump year if after February  - want leading zeroes for this test     IF   MM  DD   GEQ  0301  SET  A YEARS  1         Remove leading zeros that can cause octet probs for SET  A     FOR   r IN  MM DD HH NN SS  DO           SET  v   r          SET  t    r           SET  A N  t  0 1 0         IF 0 EQU  N  SET   v   t  1                 Increase days according to number of leap years     SET  A DAYS    YEARS  3  4-  SINCE YEAR   4 3  4         Increase days by preceding months of current year     FOR   n IN  31 1 28 2 31 3 30 4 31 5 30 6 31 7 31 8 30 9 31 10 30 11  DO           SET  n   n          IF  MM  GTR  n  3  SET  A DAYS   n  0 2                Multiply and add it all together     SET  A SECONDS   DAYS   DD -1  86400  HH  3600  NN  60  SS    SECONDS END ENDLOCAL  amp  SET  SECONDS  SECONDS   GOTO  EOF   END ENDLOCAL

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As long as it doesn t last longer than 24hours      echo off  set starttime  TIME  set startcsec  STARTTIME  9 2  set startsecs  STARTTIME  6 2  set startmins  STARTTIME  3 2  set starthour  STARTTIME  0 2  set  a starttime   starthour  60 60 100    startmins  60 100    startsecs  100    startcsec     TimeThis ping localhost   set endtime  time  set endcsec  endTIME  9 2  set endsecs  endTIME  6 2  set endmins  endTIME  3 2  set endhour  endTIME  0 2  if  endhour  LSS  starthour  set  a endhour  24 set  a endtime   endhour  60 60 100    endmins  60 100    endsecs  100    endcsec    set  a timetaken     endtime  -  starttime    set  a timetakens   timetaken    100 set timetaken  timetakens   timetaken  -2   echo  echo Took   timetaken  sec

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In the directory where your program is  type notepad mytimer bat  click  yes  to create a new file  Paste the code below  replacing YourApp exe with your program  then save    echo off date  t time  t YourApp exe date  t time  t  Type mytimer bat in the command line then press Enter

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An alternative to measure-time is simply  Get-Date   You don t have that hassle with forwarding output and so on    start   Get-Date  System Threading Thread   Sleep 1500    Get-Date  -  start   Output   Days                0 Hours               0 Minutes             0 Seconds             1 Milliseconds        506 Ticks               15060003 TotalDays           1 74305590277778E-05 TotalHours          0 000418333416666667 TotalMinutes        0 025100005 TotalSeconds        1 5060003 TotalMilliseconds   1506 0003

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The one-liner I use in Windows Server 2008 R2 is   cmd  v on  c  echo  TIME   amp   mycommand   amp  echo  TIME     So long as mycommand doesn t require quotes  which screws with cmd s quote processing   The  v on is to allow for the two different TIME values to be evaluated independently rather than once at the execution of the command

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This is a one-liner which avoids delayed expansion  which could disturb certain commands   cmd  E  C  prompt  T    amp  echo  TIME    amp  COMMAND TO MEASURE  amp  for  Z in     do rem      The output is something like    14 30 27 58      14 32 43 17  rem      For long-term tests replace  T by  D   T and  TIME  by  DATE    TIME  to include the date   To use this inside of a batch file  replace  Z by   Z     Update  Here is an improved one-liner  without delayed expansion too    cmd  E  C  prompt  D   T    amp   for    in     do rem     amp  COMMAND TO MEASURE  amp  for    in     do prompt    The output looks similar to this    2015 09 01  14 30 27 58  rem       2015 09 01  14 32 43 17  prompt    This approach does not include the process of instancing a new cmd in the result  nor does it include the prompt command s

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Hehe  the most simple solution might be this   echo  time  YourApp exe echo  time    This works on every Windows out of the box     In case of an application using console output  it might be convenient to store the starting time in a temporary variable   set startTime  time  YourApp exe echo Start Time   startTime  echo Finish Time   time

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If you want   To measure execution time down to the hundredth of a second in  hh mm ss ff format  To not have to download and install a resource pack To look like a huge DOS nerd  who doesn t    Try copying the following script into a new batch file  e g  timecmd bat     echo off  setlocal  set start  time      Runs your command cmd  c     set end  time  set options  tokens 1-4 delims      for  f  options    a in    start    do set start h   a amp set  a start m 100  b    100 amp set  a start s 100  c    100 amp set  a start ms 100  d    100 for  f  options    a in    end    do set end h   a amp set  a end m 100  b    100 amp set  a end s 100  c    100 amp set  a end ms 100  d    100  set  a hours  end h - start h  set  a mins  end m - start m  set  a secs  end s - start s  set  a ms  end ms - start ms  if  ms  lss 0 set  a secs    secs  - 1  amp  set  a ms   100 ms  if  secs  lss 0 set  a mins    mins  - 1  amp  set  a secs   60 secs  if  mins  lss 0 set  a hours    hours  - 1  amp  set  a mins   60 mins  if  hours  lss 0 set  a hours   24 hours  if 1 ms  lss 100 set ms 0 ms      Mission accomplished set  a totalsecs    hours  3600    mins  60    secs  echo command took  hours   mins   secs   ms    totalsecs   ms s total    Usage  If you put timecmd bat in a directory in your path  you can call it from anywhere like this   timecmd  your command    E g   C   gt timecmd pause Press any key to continue       command took 0 0 1 18   If you want to do output redirection  you can quote the command like this   timecmd  dir c  windows  s  gt  nul    This should handle commands that run from before- to after-midnight  but the output will be wrong if your command runs for 24 hours or more

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Here is a  Postfix timer version   Usage example   timeout 1   TimeIt cmd  Execution took   969 milliseconds    Copy  amp  paste this into some editor like for example Notepad   and save it as TimeIt cmd      --- TimeIt cmd ----      echo off     setlocal enabledelayedexpansion      call  ShowHelp         Set pipeline initialization time     set t1  time          Wait for stdin     more         Set time at which stdin was ready     set t2  time           Calculate difference     Call  GetMSeconds Tms1 t1     Call  GetMSeconds Tms2 t2      set  a deltaMSecs  Tms2 - Tms1      echo Execution took    deltaMSecs  milliseconds       endlocal goto  eof   GetMSeconds     Call  Parse        TimeAsArgs  2     Call  CalcMSeconds  1  TimeAsArgs   goto  eof   CalcMSeconds     set  a  1    2   3600 1000      3   60 1000      4   1000      5  goto  eof   Parse         Mask time like   0 23 29 12      set  1   2  0 0          Replace time separators with         set  1   1          set  1   1          set  1   1              Delete leading zero - so it ll not parsed as octal later     set  1   1  0    goto  eof   ShowHelp     echo   n0 V1 0  Dez 2015      echo      echo Usage    lt Command  gt       nx0     echo      echo Wait for pipe getting ready           echo   Press Ctrl Z   lt Enter  gt  to Cancel  goto  eof     - Based on  Daniel Sparks  Version

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Depending on the version of Windows you re using  just running bash will put you into Bash mode  This will allow you to use a bunch of commands that are not available on PowerShell directly  like the time command   Timing your command is now as easy as executing     The clause  lt your-command gt   without the angle brackets  denotes the command you want to run    time  lt your-command gt       Note  You can easily quit from Bash mode and return back into your mainstream shell by running exit while in Bash mode    This worked for me perfectly  Windows 10  after trying out other methods  like Measure-Command  which sometimes produce undesired stats  Hope this works for you as well

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I use freeware called  GS Timer    Just make a batch file like this   timer yourapp exe timer  s   If you need a set of times  just pipe the output of timer  s into a  txt file   You can get it here  Gammadyne s Free DOS Utilities    The resolution is 0 1 seconds

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In case anyone else has come here looking for an answer to this question  there s a Windows API function called GetProcessTimes    It doesn t look like too much work to write a little C program that would start the command  make this call  and return the process times

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PowerShell has a cmdlet for this called Measure-Command  You ll have to ensure that PowerShell is available on the machine that runs it  PS gt  Measure-Command   echo hi    Days                0 Hours               0 Minutes             0 Seconds             0 Milliseconds        0 Ticks               1318 TotalDays           1 52546296296296E-09 TotalHours          3 66111111111111E-08 TotalMinutes        2 19666666666667E-06 TotalSeconds        0 0001318 TotalMilliseconds   0 1318  Measure-Command captures the command s output  You can redirect the output back to your console using Out-Default  PS gt  Measure-Command   echo hi   Out-Default   hi  Days                0      Measure-Command returns a TimeSpan object  so the measured time is printed as a bunch of fields  You can format the object into a timestamp string using ToString    PS gt   Measure-Command   echo hi   Out-Default    ToString   hi 00 00 00 0001318  If the command inside Measure-Command changes your console text color  use  Console   ResetColor   to reset it back to normal

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This is a comment edit to Luke Sampson s nice timecmd bat and reply to     For some reason this only gives me output in whole seconds    which for me is useless  I mean that I run timecmd pause  and it always results in 1 00 sec  2 00 sec  4 00 sec    even 0 00 sec  Windows 7      Camilo Martin Sep 25  13 at 16 00      On some configurations the delimiters may differ  The following change should cover atleast most western countries   set options  tokens 1-4 delims       added comma    The  time  milliseconds work on my system after adding that        because site doesn t allow anon comment and doesn t keep good track of identity even though I always use same guest email which combined with ipv6 ip and browser fingerprint should be enough to uniquely identify without password

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Just a little expansion of the answer from Casey K about using the Measure-Command from PowerShell    You can invoke PowerShell from the standard command prompt  like this   powershell -Command  Measure-Command  echo hi    This will eat the standard output  but you can prevent that by adding   Out-Default like this from PowerShell   Measure-Command  echo hi   Out-Default    Or from a command prompt   powershell -Command  Measure-Command  echo hi   Out-Default      Of course  you re free to wrap this in a script file   ps1 or   bat

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There s also TimeMem  March 2012       This is a Windows utility which executes a program and displays its   execution time  memory usage  and IO statistics  It is similar in   functionality to the Unix time utility

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A solution using pure PHP for cmd and one env  variable    echo off setlocal enableextensions  REM set start time env var FOR  F  tokens   USEBACKQ    F IN   php -r  echo microtime true      DO   SET start time   F       PUT HERE THE COMMAND TO RUN     REM echo elapsed time php -r  echo  elapsed       round microtime true  - trim getenv  start time     2       seconds    mb convert encoding   amp  13  amp  10     UTF-8    HTML-ENTITIES        no need for cygwin or non-trusted utilities  Usefull when PHP is locally available precision and output format can be easily tweaked the same idea can be ported for PowerShell

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I m using Windows nbsp XP and for some reason timeit exe does not work for me  I found another alternative - PTIME  This works very well   http   www pc-tools net win32 ptime   Example -  C   gt  ptime  ptime 1 0 for Win32  Freeware - http   www pc-tools net  Copyright C  2002  Jem Berkes  lt jberkes pc-tools net gt   Syntax  ptime command  arguments       ptime will run the specified command and measure the execution time  run time  in seconds  accurate to 5 millisecond or better  It is an automatic process timer  or program timer    C   gt  ptime cd  ptime 1 0 for Win32  Freeware - http   www pc-tools net  Copyright C  2002  Jem Berkes  lt jberkes pc-tools net gt        cd     C    Execution time  0 015 s

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