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

Just to provide an another way, you can also simply use the following command

$ cat to_remove
/tmp/file1
/tmp/file2
/tmp/file3
$ rm $( cat to_remove )