Read filenames from a text file and then make those files?

Question

My code is given below. Echo works fine. But, the moment I redirect output of echo to touch, I get an error "no such file or directory". Why ? How do i fix it ? If I copy paste the output of only echo, then the file is created, but not with touch.

while read line           
do           
    #touch < echo -e "$correctFilePathAndName"
    echo -e "$correctFilePathAndName"           
done < $file.txt

Answer 1

If you have file names in each line of your input file file.txt then you don't need to do any loop. You can just do:

touch $(<file.txt)

to create all the files in one single touch command.