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

The following should work and leaves you room to do other things as you loop through.

Edit: Don't do this, see here: http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html

for file in $(cat list.txt); do rm $file; done