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

First Item

gci > out.txt
Get-Content out.txt | Select -Index 7 | Format-list

Second Item

gci > out.txt
Get-Content out.txt | Select -Index 8 | Format-list

The item between n and p

$n=3 
$p=7
$count = 0
$index = $n+7
$p=7+7
while($true){ 
   $index = $index + $count
   Get-Content out.txt | Select -Index $index | Format-list
   if($index -eq $p)
   {    
      break;
   }
   $count = $count + 1 
}

Note : The first seven lines are empty and the description lines.