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You wouldn't need anything other than what I posted.  Don't forget the 
'-v' option to grep, otherwise it will do exactly the opposite of what 
you expect.  The grep will be greedy as well.  For example

grep -v foo

Would exclude anything that contained foo.  If the directory you want to 
exlude is not unique to all files, but is to all directories then you 
could use a variation such as:

find . -type d -print|xargs grep -v $DIRECTORY_YOU_DONT_WANT |
	xargs -n 10 chown -R

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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