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I think you don't need to consider deleting the 200* on sub-dir then it's okay.

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thanks for all the responses guys...i've tried this:

find . -type d | awk '!/\.\/200*/' | awk -F"/" '{print $2}' | more

just to see what it would return, since technically, i will do a rm -fR on the top level dir...Seems like it will do the trick.

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The double awks are wasteful, though.

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find . -type d | awk -F "/" '!/\.\/200/ { print $2 }'
Note also that 200* in a regular expression means 20 or 200 or 2000 or 20000 or ...
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Moving the thread to "Shell scripting" as requested by OP.

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