Bash copy help

I have a file of paths, separated with newlines, and I want to copy every file in that list to a specified location, how do I do that?

Any time you're using xargs I would strongly suggest using -0 to avoid surprises. For example if you have a file with ' in the name it'll screw things up.

That is, instead of:
xargs whatever < file
use:
tr \\n \\0 < file | xargs -0 whatever
and your xargs will behave itself.