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

Question

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

Answer 1

Just a little expansion of the answer from Casey.K about using the Measure-Command from PowerShell:

1. You can invoke PowerShell from the standard command prompt, like this:

   powershell -Command "Measure-Command {echo hi}"
   

2. 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.