PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

How to do it...

Navigate to the directory where you have the files:

1. Select only the first five files and directories from the returned list by using the First parameter:

PS> Get-ChildItem . | Select-Object -First 5

2. Let's say we would like to pick the last five elements:

PS> Get-ChildItem . | Select-Object -Last 5

3. We are doing this so that we can skip the first three objects:

PS> Get-ChildItem . | Select-Object -Skip 3

4. If you would like to skip the last two objects, you can use the following code:

PS> Get-ChildItem . | Select-Object -SkipLast 2

5. To pick the fourth element from the output, you can use the following code:

PS> Get-ChildItem . | Select-Object -Index 3

6. Now, combine it with what we learned in the previous recipe. Pick ...