Delete files and folders with specific name from a certain directory

You can delete the files and folders in the subdirectories of folderA.

To remove the files, run:

find /home/userA/folderA/* -type f \( -name "data.txt" -or -name "glass.txt" \) -delete 

and to remove the folders match:

find /home/userA/folderA/* -depth -name "match" -type d -exec rm -rf "{}" \; 

And the verbose (python) option:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import os
import shutil

# --------------------------------------------------------
reorg_dir = "/path/to/your/folder"
remove_files = ("data.txt", "glass.txt")
remove_dirs = ("match")
# ---------------------------------------------------------

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(reorg_dir):
    for name in files:
        if name in remove_files:
            os.remove(root+"/"+name)
    for dr in dirs:
        if dr in remove_dirs:
            shutil.rmtree(root+"/"+dr)

Copy the script into an empty file, set the directory and if you want/need: edit the list of files and folders to remove, save it as reorg.py and run it by the command:

python3 /path/to/reorg.py