# Select files of interest, here, only text files for ex.
find -type f -exec file {} \; > findresult.txt
grep ": ASCII text$" findresult.txt > textfiles.txt
# leave only the path to the file removing suffix and prefix
sed -i -e 's/:.*$//' textfiles.txt
sed -i -e 's/\.\///' textfiles.txt
#write a script that deletes the files in textfiles.txt
IFS_backup=$IFS
IFS=$(echo "\n\b")
for f in $(cat textfiles.txt);
do
rm "$f";
done
IFS=$IFS_backup
# save script as "some.sh" and run: sh some.sh