Shell command/script to delete files whose names are in a text file

Question

I have a list of files in a .txt file (say list.txt). I want to delete the files in that list. I haven\'t done scripting before. Could some give the shell script/command I c

Answer 1

If the file names have spaces in them, none of the other answers will work; they'll treat each word as a separate file name. Assuming the list of files is in list.txt, this will always work:

while read name; do
  rm "$name"
done < list.txt