Displaying First Or Last Elements

Select-Object can limit results to only the first or last elements. Simply use -first or -last:

You should note how Select-Object outputs internally only the first or last elements of the resulting array. You can get the same functionality by accessing array elements manually:

Also, Select-Object will not terminate the pipeline once it has retrieved the given number of elements. Instead, it works like a filter and returns only the elements you requested, but has no effect on the previous pipeline command.