Question

I am having build script in msbuild which will be invoked by powershell.

Build log file would look like this.

Build started 12/19/2011 2:01:54 PM.

Build succeeded.
0 Warning(s)
0 Error(s)

Time Elapsed 00:00:00.28

At starting point it will specify the build execution initiated time and the end it will say Time elapsed.

I would like to find the execution time using powershell or msbuild. How can i add all the time elapsed value or find the difference between last build started occurrence with first build occurrence?

As it is in log file , i don’t know how to retrieve this and measure.

Answer 1

Use Measure-Commmand to see how long is your build process. Here’s an example:

Measure-Command { ./build.ps1 }

The output on my machine was:

PS D:\> Measure-Command { ./build.ps1 }


Days              : 0
Hours             : 0
Minutes           : 0
Seconds           : 6
Milliseconds      : 443
Ticks             : 64439301
TotalDays         : 7.45825243055556E-05
TotalHours        : 0.00178998058333333
TotalMinutes      : 0.107398835
TotalSeconds      : 6.4439301
TotalMilliseconds : 6443.9301