[tlug] deleting a local list of filenames from remote server

[Charles Muller <cmuller-lst@example.com>]

I have a file list that lists the dictionary files that I've updated 
locally. Once every few days, I delete the corresponding files from 
the dictionary cache on my web server, so that new cache files will 
be generated. For a few years now, I've been manually logging on to 
the site with FTP, going to the cache directory, typing "rm" and 
pasting in the list of filenames.

Now that I'm learning a few things with SSH, I'm wondering if I 
can't automate this. I've succeeded in doing it locally with this 
sort of command

  xargs rm < filelist

Wherein the files in filelist have absolute paths. The file list, 
without the absolute paths, looks something like this:

4eid(b4e00-4e00-6bdb-751f).html
4eid(b4e00-4e00).html
4eid(b4e00-4e08-516d-50cf).html
4eid(b4e00-4e09-6627).html

 etc.

I am thinking that I need to do something that is (logically, at 
least) like this:

ssh user@example.com 'xargs rm < filelist public_html/cache/'

I know that this is not close at all, but I have spent the evening 
reading man pages and Googling around for something equivalent, and 
so far have not been able to come up with something close. I assume 
that what I want to do is possible. Is it?

Thanks,

Chuck

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A. Charles Muller

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