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

xargs -I{} sh -c 'rm {}' < 1.txt should do what you want. Be careful with this command as one incorrect entry in that file could cause a lot of trouble.

This answer was edited after @tdavies pointed out that the original did not do shell expansion.