linux - 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 delete them. Tried rm `cat 1.txt` and it says the list is too long.

Found this command, but when I check folders from the list, some of them still have files xargs rm <1.txt Manual rm call removes files from such folders, so no issue with permissions.

Answer 1

This is not very efficient, but will work if you need glob patterns (as in /var/www/*)

for f in $(cat 1.txt) ; do 
  rm "$f"
done

If you don't have any patterns and are sure your paths in the file do not contain whitespaces or other weird things, you can use xargs like so:

xargs rm < 1.txt