title: Benchmarking mysql on windows
body: <p>Mysql on linux has a useful pager command that allows you to run a command and just see the results of processing the query and not displaying the results in the console. </p>
  
  <p>pager cat > /dev/null</p>
  
  <p>251903 rows in set (49.25 sec)</p>
  
  <p>Mysql on Windows is missing the pager command. Running the command on Windows including output takes 1 min 17.28 seconds (most of the time is spent outputting to command prompt). How can I just time how long it takes to perform the command in Windows. (I suppose I could write a simple python program!)</p>