Selecting subsets of data

After sorting a collection, we often want to select only a subset of the collection, such as the first couple of elements. This is often done when only a small amount of objects are needed, or to simply select the first one.

This recipe will show you how you can select elements from the top or bottom of a list, or from somewhere in-between, using an index. Especially when examining output, you often only need the first couple of elements to see what they look like, and not the entire collection.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

1. Usually, we use Select-Object to select subsets of objects that have been filtered, sorted, and processed before. Select that last five items of a collection:
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