STOPWATCH 1.0
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STOPWATCH 1.0 description
The STOPWATCH application was designed to be a small command line tool that can be used to calculate the elapsed time, (in seconds), in a batch file. It does this by redirecting the current time out to a file when the "start" command is given, and then reading that time back in when a "stop" command is given. For example:
C:>stopwatch start > timestamp.txt
... other batch commands here ...
C:>stopwatch stop 10
Note that the output from the stop command can be piped or redirected to a program or file if required, and multiple "stop" commands can be executed to get intermediate timestamps. If you want to save the output of the "stopwatch stop" command to a variable, DOS/Windows doesn't make things easy for you. Here's an example that includes an ugly workaround to get the elapsed time into a variable called "elapsed_time":
@echo off
stopwatch start > timestamp.txt
... other batch commands here ...
stopwatch stop elapsed.txt
for /F %%a in ('type elapsed.txt') do set /a elapsed_time=%%a
echo %elapsed_time%
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