how to delete files but preserve subfolders in unix

find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

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Thanks seth, but that deletes all files in the subfolders as well.
Can we limit to current folder?

then the command you have will do what you want so not sure what the issue is

that command without -R will not be recursive; it will see the folder, knows it can't remove it because it's a folder and -R wasn't specified and reports an error which is expected behaviour

thank you so much guys.
I used an ls command to find the files and then removed them.

ls |grep -v ^d|xargs rm -f

I've requested that this question be closed as follows:

Accepted answer: 0 points for arcee123's comment #a39534364

for the following reason:

This solution was more stable in my environment using SOLARIS.

I thank you guys very much...

Your ls command does not work because ls shows you names of files and folders. The grep removes both files and folders from the list that start with a d

I think you would mean:

ls -l | grep -v ^d | xargs rm -f

but that would give you output containing security files, size etc. so the rm would fail (or at least give a whole bunch of errors).

Did you check my last comment? It works, why no accept that?

I object to the way this question is closed, the solution does not work on Linux. Closing comment is now mentioning SOLARIS which was never in the original question.

I am on Solaris.
This worked there.

Admin,
if you can, please grant the points if it's allowable.
I just don't know how to handle this.
Thanks