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With an oscilloscope, or a true RMS multimeter. I don't know if true RMS meters works on square waves though, would depend on the meter. Alternatively if you know the duty cycle of the wave form and the load you can calculate the current yourself, just multiply the steady state current (force the 555 on to measure this with a meter) and multiply that by the duty cycle.
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