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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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