What is the "Select-Object" cmdlet in Windows PowerShell?

"Select-Object" cmdlet in Windows PowerShell takes an input of object list and generate an output object list by filtering out objects and/or modifying some object properties.

Example 1: the following command uses "select-object" to take a subset of a Process object list:

PS C:\fyicenter> get-process | sort-object -property cpu | select-object -last 5

Handles  NPM(K)    PM(K)      WS(K) VM(M)   CPU(s)     Id ProcessName
-------  ------    -----      ----- -----   ------     -- -----------
    301      15    15148       8940   131    33.21   2512 taskhost
    536      19    56092      30584   246    37.80   3280 powershell
   3085      81   141904      82144   450 7,158.96   3344 explorer
    274      16   165764     143244   380 8,573.96    916 dwm
   1442      79   681932     306356  1538 9,216.63   4896 firefox

Example 2: the following command uses "select-object" to show specific properties in each Process object in the list:

PS C:\fyicenter> get-process taskhost 
   | select-object -property CPU,ID,Name,VirtualMemorySize,UserProcessorTime,MainModule 
   | format-list

CPU               : 33.4466144
Id                : 2512
Name              : taskhost
VirtualMemorySize : 137695232
UserProcessorTime : 00:00:15.9433022
MainModule        : System.Diagnostics.ProcessModule (taskhost.exe)

CPU               : 0.0780005
Id                : 5132
Name              : taskhost
VirtualMemorySize : 64598016
UserProcessorTime : 00:00:00
MainModule        :

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