Have you ever been working in a Powershell console and have a command run longer than expected? Did you wish that you had wrapped that command in a Measure-Command so that you could view execution time? This has happened to me several times, so recently I started working on a Measure-HistoricalCommand function that would use Get-History to create a New-TimeSpan from the StartExecutionTime and EndExecutionTime properties. I would like to say thanks to @mtboren from vnugglets.com who helped add some functionality and speed up this function.
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Function Measure-HistoricalCommand {
param(
## for getting info about the last X commands
[parameter(Mandatory=$false,ParameterSetName=”ByCommandCount”)][alias(“Count”)][Int]$Last=1,
## for getting info about a specific command ID
[parameter(Mandatory=$true,ParameterSetName=”ByCommandId”)][alias(“Id”)][Int]$CommandID
) ## end param
process {
## create the Get-History command expression to invoke; use -Id or -Count based on the params passed to this function
$strGetHistoryExpr = “Get-History ” + $(if ($CommandID) {“-Id $CommandID”} else {“-Count $Last”})
Invoke-Expression $strGetHistoryExpr | %{
$ts = New-TimeSpan -Start $_.StartExecutionTime -End $_.EndExecutionTime
## again, take out the array, just return the object straight away
#$myResults += New-Object PSObject -Property @{
New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
ID = $_.ID
CommandLine = $_.CommandLIne
EndExectuionTime = $_.EndExecutionTime
StartExecutionTime = $_.StartExecutionTime
TimeSpan = $ts
TotalSec = $ts.TotalSeconds
} ## end new-psobject
} ## end History foreach-object
} ## end process
} ## end fn
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