thanks to Anderson M. Gomes http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/270071/how-to-delete-all-files-with-specific-extension-in-specific-named-folders-in-lar
Here is the code
#to check $ find /path/to/source -type d -name 'rules' -exec find '{}' -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.pdf' -print ';' #to delete $ find /path/to/source -type d -name 'rules' -exec find '{}' -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.pdf' -print -delete ';'