#!/usr/bin/perl


# set $listfile to some constant, or to $ARGV[0] (and supply the file
#+name
# as a command-line arg when you run the script)

my %outfh;  # hash to hold output file handles

open ORIGFILE, $ARGV[0] or die "$ARGV[0]: $!";
while ( <ORIGFILE> ) {
    my ( $host, $data ) = split " ", $_, 2;
    if ( ! exists( $outfh{$host} )) {
        open( $outfh{$host}, ">", $host ) or die "$host: $!";
    }
    print $outfh{$host} $data;
}
# perl will flush and close output files when done