How to time a script in DOS?

Question

How do you time a script in the DOS prompt?

The *NIX equivanlent would be:

$ time myscript

real 0m0.886s
user 0m0.846s
sys 0m0.031s

$

Is there a DOS equivalent to this? Thanks

Answer 1

you can put this at the start and end of your batch:

echo %time%

Answer 2

This is a DOS batch script that will compute the time difference for you rather than just doing echo %time%.

The following code will work fine as long as your "timed user section" doesn't take more than 24 hours to run. Please be forgiving or give me suggestions, it's a work in progress that I spent about an hour on.

Replace "PAUSE" with the call to your script to time your own code.

DOS BAT FILE FOLLOWS:

Note: was edited to fix issue with leading zeros being octal rather than decimal.

Note: was edited to handle running over "midnight" hour wraparound and to put leading zeros in output.

@echo off
@rem --------------------------------------------
setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS

set start_time=%time%
echo Beginning at: %start_time%
echo Running Timed Batch File
echo.

@rem echo %*  <-- Extension for all args -- easier than following line
@rem echo %0 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 ... ...

@rem DO YOUR WORK HERE -- see "call" / PAUSE is here to "fake" work
@rem call userscript.bat %*
PAUSE

set stop_time=%time%
echo.
echo Timed Batch File Completed
echo Start time: %start_time%
echo Stop time : %stop_time%


set TEMPRESULT=%start_time:~0,2%
call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS
set start_hour=%TEMPRESULT%
@rem
set TEMPRESULT=%start_time:~3,2%
call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS
set start_min=%TEMPRESULT%
@rem
set TEMPRESULT=%start_time:~6,2%
call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS
set start_sec=%TEMPRESULT%
@rem
set TEMPRESULT=%start_time:~9,2%
call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS
set start_hundredths=%TEMPRESULT%

set TEMPRESULT=%stop_time:~0,2%
call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS
set stop_hour=%TEMPRESULT%
@rem
set TEMPRESULT=%stop_time:~3,2%
call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS
set stop_min=%TEMPRESULT%
@rem
set TEMPRESULT=%stop_time:~6,2%
call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS
set stop_sec=%TEMPRESULT%
@rem
set TEMPRESULT=%stop_time:~9,2%
call:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS
set stop_hundredths=%TEMPRESULT%

set /A start_total=(((((%start_hour%*60)+%start_min%)*60)+%start_sec%)*100)+%start_hundredths%
set /A stop_total=(((((%stop_hour%*60)+%stop_min%)*60)+%stop_sec%)*100)+%stop_hundredths%

set /A total_time=%stop_total% - %start_total%

set /A total_hundredths=%total_time% %% 100
set total_hundredths=00%total_hundredths%
set total_hundredths=%total_hundredths:~-2%
set /A total_time=%total_time% / 100

set /A total_sec="%total_time% %% 60"
set total_sec=00%total_sec%
set total_sec=%total_sec:~-2%
set /A total_time=%total_time% / 60

set /A total_min="%total_time% %% 60"
set total_min=00%total_min%
set total_min=%total_min:~-2%
set /A total_time=%total_time% / 60

set /A total_hour="%total_time% %% 60"
@rem Handle if it wrapped around over midnight
if "%total_hour:~0,1%"=="-" set /A total_hour=%total_hour% + 24

echo Total time: %total_hour%:%total_min%:%total_sec%.%total_hundredths%

@rem --------------------------------------------
@rem Exit the BAT Program
endlocal
goto END

@rem --------------------------------------------
@rem FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS function
@rem  Used to remove leading zeros from Decimal
@rem  numbers so they are not treated as Octal.
:FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS
if "%TEMPRESULT%"=="0" goto END
if "%TEMPRESULT:~0,1%" NEQ "0" goto END
set TEMPRESULT=%TEMPRESULT:~1%
goto FN_REMOVELEADINGZEROS

@rem --------------------------------------------
@rem BAT PROGRAM / FUNCTION FILE EXIT
:END

Answer 3

you can use timeit.exe from the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit . You also get a crapload of other useful tools and Unix command ports.

C:\Documents and Settings\Rob>timeit sleep 3

Version Number:   Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600)
Exit Time:        2:40 pm, Thursday, December 10 2009
Elapsed Time:     0:00:03.296
Process Time:     0:00:00.015
System Calls:     7576
Context Switches: 1974
Page Faults:      1072
Bytes Read:       6172
Bytes Written:    11086
Bytes Other:      144432

Answer 4

If you don't mind using a third party EXE for help, timer.exe from Gammadyne is very useful.

setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS
FOR /F %%G IN ('timer') DO SET start_time=%%G

@rem Do your work Here
call userscript.bat %*

timer %start_time% "Total time"
endlocal