Re: How to delete a directory?
Thanks. It was a version error. 2.3 did the trick. Alexander wrote: Oh, you right. But you already answered your question! Use excludeDefaultDirectories. It works fine, really. Be sure you use 2.3 version of maven-clean-plugin. (as it mentioned in documentation this option work only since 2.3) plugin groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId artifactIdmaven-clean-plugin/artifactId version2.3/version configuration excludeDefaultDirectoriestrue/excludeDefaultDirectories /configuration /plugin 2009/8/5 Chris she...@yahoo.com mailto:she...@yahoo.com I can delete the directories ok. What I can't do is prevent it from deleting the target directory. Alexander wrote: No maven-clean-plugin is more flexible. Read there http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/examples/delete_additional_files.html 2009/8/5 Chris she...@yahoo.com mailto:she...@yahoo.com mailto:she...@yahoo.com mailto:she...@yahoo.com I'm using maven-dependency-plugin to make a custom directory of dependencies. The trouble is that I can't find a way to delete the outputDirectory before the plugin runs so I can be sure there aren't any old files left over in it. I tried to use maven-clean-plugin to do it, but it insists on deleting the entire /target directory, which I don't want. It looks like there is an excludeDefaultDirectories option available on the command line, but putting excludeDefaultDirectoriestrue/excludeDefaultDirectories in the configuration section doesn't work. Any other suggestions? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-h...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-h...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-h...@maven.apache.org -- Alexander - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-h...@maven.apache.org -- Alexander - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
How to delete a directory?
I'm using maven-dependency-plugin to make a custom directory of dependencies. The trouble is that I can't find a way to delete the outputDirectory before the plugin runs so I can be sure there aren't any old files left over in it. I tried to use maven-clean-plugin to do it, but it insists on deleting the entire /target directory, which I don't want. It looks like there is an excludeDefaultDirectories option available on the command line, but putting excludeDefaultDirectoriestrue/excludeDefaultDirectories in the configuration section doesn't work. Any other suggestions? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
Re: How to delete a directory?
No maven-clean-plugin is more flexible. Read there http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/examples/delete_additional_files.html [?] 2009/8/5 Chris she...@yahoo.com I'm using maven-dependency-plugin to make a custom directory of dependencies. The trouble is that I can't find a way to delete the outputDirectory before the plugin runs so I can be sure there aren't any old files left over in it. I tried to use maven-clean-plugin to do it, but it insists on deleting the entire /target directory, which I don't want. It looks like there is an excludeDefaultDirectories option available on the command line, but putting excludeDefaultDirectoriestrue/excludeDefaultDirectories in the configuration section doesn't work. Any other suggestions? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org -- Alexander
Re: How to delete a directory?
I can delete the directories ok. What I can't do is prevent it from deleting the target directory. Alexander wrote: No maven-clean-plugin is more flexible. Read there http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/examples/delete_additional_files.html 2009/8/5 Chris she...@yahoo.com mailto:she...@yahoo.com I'm using maven-dependency-plugin to make a custom directory of dependencies. The trouble is that I can't find a way to delete the outputDirectory before the plugin runs so I can be sure there aren't any old files left over in it. I tried to use maven-clean-plugin to do it, but it insists on deleting the entire /target directory, which I don't want. It looks like there is an excludeDefaultDirectories option available on the command line, but putting excludeDefaultDirectoriestrue/excludeDefaultDirectories in the configuration section doesn't work. Any other suggestions? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-h...@maven.apache.org -- Alexander - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
Re: How to delete a directory?
Oh, you right. But you already answered your question! [?] Use excludeDefaultDirectories. It works fine, really. Be sure you use 2.3 version of maven-clean-plugin. (as it mentioned in documentation this option work only since 2.3) plugin groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId artifactIdmaven-clean-plugin/artifactId version2.3/version configuration excludeDefaultDirectoriestrue/excludeDefaultDirectories /configuration /plugin 2009/8/5 Chris she...@yahoo.com I can delete the directories ok. What I can't do is prevent it from deleting the target directory. Alexander wrote: No maven-clean-plugin is more flexible. Read there http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/examples/delete_additional_files.html 2009/8/5 Chris she...@yahoo.com mailto:she...@yahoo.com I'm using maven-dependency-plugin to make a custom directory of dependencies. The trouble is that I can't find a way to delete the outputDirectory before the plugin runs so I can be sure there aren't any old files left over in it. I tried to use maven-clean-plugin to do it, but it insists on deleting the entire /target directory, which I don't want. It looks like there is an excludeDefaultDirectories option available on the command line, but putting excludeDefaultDirectoriestrue/excludeDefaultDirectories in the configuration section doesn't work. Any other suggestions? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-h...@maven.apache.org -- Alexander - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org -- Alexander
Re: How to delete a directory?
Why don't you just make this folder a subfolder of /target and when you want this cleaned out, you run clean? On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Alexander the.malk...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, you right. But you already answered your question! [?] Use excludeDefaultDirectories. It works fine, really. Be sure you use 2.3 version of maven-clean-plugin. (as it mentioned in documentation this option work only since 2.3) plugin groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId artifactIdmaven-clean-plugin/artifactId version2.3/version configuration excludeDefaultDirectoriestrue/excludeDefaultDirectories /configuration /plugin 2009/8/5 Chris she...@yahoo.com I can delete the directories ok. What I can't do is prevent it from deleting the target directory. Alexander wrote: No maven-clean-plugin is more flexible. Read there http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/examples/delete_additional_files.html 2009/8/5 Chris she...@yahoo.com mailto:she...@yahoo.com I'm using maven-dependency-plugin to make a custom directory of dependencies. The trouble is that I can't find a way to delete the outputDirectory before the plugin runs so I can be sure there aren't any old files left over in it. I tried to use maven-clean-plugin to do it, but it insists on deleting the entire /target directory, which I don't want. It looks like there is an excludeDefaultDirectories option available on the command line, but putting excludeDefaultDirectoriestrue/excludeDefaultDirectories in the configuration section doesn't work. Any other suggestions? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org mailto:users-h...@maven.apache.org -- Alexander - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org -- Alexander
