how to select files not in a list

From: Carli Fuchs (carlif_at_chepnt.net)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:24:15 -0700

I have two lists, one list holds actual users, another holds a listing of
home directories. I want to remove the directories that are not in the
actual users list. I have tried diff, comm, and uniq, but I cannot get just
a list of directories of people who are not on the actual users list. Am I
approaching this task wrong? My approach is to list all folders (they are
named the same as the accountholder), and compare the folder names to the
list of people who are current account holders. I was thinking that would
give me a list of people who had folders but did not have accounts, and then
I can delete those folders. Is there another way to do this?

tia
c.f.

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