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

In case somebody prefers sed and removing without wildcard expansion:

sed -e "s/^\(.*\)$/rm -f -- \'\1\'/" deletelist.txt | /bin/sh

Reminder: use absolute pathnames in the file or make sure you are in the right directory.

And for completeness the same with awk:

awk '{printf "rm -f -- '\''%s'\''\n",$1}' deletelist.txt | /bin/sh

Wildcard expansion will work if the single quotes are remove, but this is dangerous in case the filename contains spaces. This would need to add quotes around the wildcards.