bash - Find specific parent folder and delete files inside sub-folders in Linux

Question

What I want to happen is delete non-images in assets/uploads folder but skip the uploads folder if the parent folder is not assets folder.

site1.dev/assets/uploads (delete non-images)
site2.dev/assets/uploads (delete non-images)
site3.dev/assets/uploads (delete non-images)
site4.dev/uploads (skip deletion)
site5.dev/assets/uploads (delete non-images)

This is the code that I used find assets/uploads -name "*.php" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f but it tedious to run this code each site.

Thank you in advance.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65942171/find-specific-parent-folder-and-delete-files-inside-sub-folders-in-linux

Answer 1

To delete "none-images" as described, you need to first discover the image extensions that are being used and ignore them with find through the -not flag

find ./assets/uploads -type f -not /assets/uploads/*.img -not /assets/uploads/*.jpeg -delete