Outputting sorted sections of sorted data to a variable? - powershell

Question

I have the following PowerShell code:
[xml]$xml = Get-Content uccxResourceList_forReference.xml
$xml.resources.resource |
Select-Object firstname, lastname, extension,
#{Name="Team"; Expression={($_.team.name)}} |
Sort Team |
Format-Table
which produces a table like this:
firstName lastName extension Team
--------- -------- --------- ----------------
Homer Simpson 1000 SafetyInspectors
Frank Grimes 1001 SafetyInspectors
Lenford Leonard 1002 SafetyInspectors
Carlton Carlson 1003 SafetyInspectors
Montgomery Burns 2000 Executives
Waylon Smithers 2001 Executives
What I would like to do is output each team into its own file. So not just a simple | Out-File teamlist.txt at the end, but I would like to output a text file containing all of the "SafetyInspectors" and another with all of the "Executives".
I know I could get this done with a subsequent foreach loop but I feel it could also be done in the pipeline and I just don't know how to do it.

Answer 1

I'd prefer to output to a csv file (which easily is imported again) , so:
[xml]$xml = Get-Content uccxResourceList_forReference.xml
$xml.resources.resource |
Select-Object firstname, lastname, extension,
#{Name="Team"; Expression={($_.team.name)}} |
Group-Object Team | ForEach-Object {
$_.Group | Export-Csv ("{0}.csv" -f $_.Name) -NoTypeInformation
}
Should return something like this:
> gc .\Executives.csv
"firstName","lastName","extension","Team"
"Montgomery","Burns","2000","Executives"
"Waylon","Smithers","2001","Executives"
> gc .\SafetyInspectors.csv
"firstName","lastName","extension","Team"
"Homer","Simpson","1000","SafetyInspectors"
"Frank","Grimes","1001","SafetyInspectors"
"Lenford","Leonard","1002","SafetyInspectors"
"Carlton","Carlson","1003","SafetyInspectors"