How to redirect rm to read and delete files from a file?

Question

linux

Good afternoon.

There are ne number of files in the directory, in the same directory there is a file (a), which contains part of the name of these files.
I made bash, which is supposed to read the file and delete on it

#!/bin/bash
cat a.txt | rm -i $a.txt

I did something similar before, but I'm new to linux and when transferring mv files, I accidentally overwrote the directory with the original, correct script...

Answer 1

xargs rm -i < a.txt