In shell script, I want to clear only text files and log files in the following structure with out removing the directory as well as subdirectories | |------bar/ | |---file1.txt |---file2.txt | |---subdir1/ | |---file1.log | |---file2.log | |---subdir2/ |---image1.log |---image2.log I am using rm -rf /bar/* so I am getting the result as follows. |------bar/ but I want the output like following | |------bar/ | | | | |---subdir1/ | | | |---subdir2/ I want to remove only text files or log files or csv with out removing the directory and the subdirectories