Unix: How to delete files listed in a file

Question

I have a long text file with list of file masks I want to delete

Example:

/tmp/aaa.jpg
/var/www1/*
/var/www/qwerty.php

I need delet

Answer 1

You could use '\n' for define the new line character as delimiter.

xargs -d '\n' rm < 1.txt

Be careful with the -rf because it can delete what you don't want to if the 1.txt contains paths with spaces. That's why the new line delimiter a bit safer.

On BSD systems, you could use -0 option to use new line characters as delimiter like this:

xargs -0 rm < 1.txt