I have listed the names of the files which are to be deleted into a file. How can I pass the file to rm command so that it should delete them one by one.
If you have one file per line, one way to do it is:
tr '\n' '\0' < list_of_files_to_be_deleted.txt | xargs -0 -r rm --
The file list is given as input to the tr command which changes the file separator from linefeed to the null byte and the xargs command reads files separated by null bytes on input and launches the rm command with the files appended as arguments.
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