I have large tree, with many pdf files in it. I want to delete the pdf files in this tree, but only those pdf files in sub folders named rules/ There are other type of files inside rules/. The rules/ subfolders have no other subfolders.

For example, I have this tree. Everything below 'source'

 source/ A/ rules/*.pdf, *.txt, *.c,etc.. etc/ B/ keep_this.pdf rules/*.pdf whatever/ C/ D/ rules/*.pdf something/ 

and so on. There are pdf files all over the place, but I only want to delete all the pdf files which are in folders called rules/ and no other place.

I think I need to use

 cd source find / -type d -name "rules" -print0 | xargs -0 <<<rm *.pdf?? now what?>>> 

But I am not sure what to do after getting list of all subfolders named rules/

Any help is appreciated.

On Linux mint.