How to remove all files and subdirectories from a directory, excluding a few specified subdirectories (and all the contents in them)?

Question

linux

There is a dir directory .
This directory has other subdirectories as well as files. I need to delete ALL contents of the dir directory EXCEPT the subdirectories poddir1 ( dir/poddir1 ) and poddir2 ( dir/somedir/poddir2 ) (do not delete the contents of these subdirectories).
Please tell me the correct command to solve this problem.
UPD: the subdirectories that need to be left have unique names.

Answer 1

ls | grep -v -E 'poddir1|poddir2' | xargs rm -rf
If you need to add another folder, then register it through the operator | , i.e:
And do not forget that you need to run the command while in the dir directory , otherwise sadness :)