.htaccess redirect for parent but not children?

Question

I have a number of URLs that I need to redirect to new locations, but there are some situations where child pages need to remain active and not redirected. For example:

/products would redirect to http://www.newsite.com/products

/products/category1 would redirect to http://www.newsite/products/category1

But /products/specialitem would not get redirected at all.

Is this possible with either Redirect or RedirectMatch?

Doing a Redirect 301 /products http://www.newsite.com/products seems to affect all child pages

Thanks for any guidance!

Edit:

Using waynethec's answer, I was able to get started. But can anyone clarify why my first rule below works but the others do not?

RedirectMatch 301 ^segment-one$ http://www.google.com/

RedirectMatch 301 ^segment-one/segment-two$ http://news.google.com/

RedirectMatch 301 ^segment-one/segment-two/segment-three$ http://cnn.com/

RedirectMatch 301 ^segment-one/segment-two/segment-three/foobar$ http://gbv.com/

(By not working, I mean that I still can get to the pages, rather than them getting redirected.)

Answer 1

You should be able to use the following RedirectMatch rule:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/products$ http://www.newsite.com/products

Note that this will only redirect requests for /products, not /products/, or /products/pagename.extension.