select second or third object / element

Question

I want to select the second/third/forth object of a Get-ChildItem statement in my PowerShell script. This gives me the first:

$first = Get-Child         


        

Answer 1

The second approach suggested by @AnsgarWiechers can easily be turned into a simple reusable funtion, like so:

function Select-Nth {
    param([int]$N) 

    $Input | Select-Object -First $N | Select-Object -Last 1
}

And then

PS C:\> 1,2,3,4,5 |Select-Nth 3
3