make files from one txt file

Question

I have Linux CLI and 1 txt file with a couple of hundred entries like this:

alalalala asasasaas addfsfdfd

I want to make files with text inside as:

alalalala

etc..

please advice.

Answer 1

awk '{ for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) { print $i > $i".txt"}   }' file

Answer 2

What names should have the generated files?

How I would do it in Python:

contents = open("file.txt").read()
entries = contents.split()  # split by whitespace
for entry in entries:
  f = open(entry + ".txt", "w")
  f.write(entry + "\n")
  f.close()

But I must admit that the one-liner from ghostdog74 looks very nice :)