Thank you. It works.  
I went back to my configuration, it also works as soon as I took out
<excludes> tag. 

So, just curious, the plugin get confused with <excludes> tag?


Alexander-129 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Maven-clean-plugin is smart enough to delete directory [?] Try this:
> 
>                 <plugin>
>                    <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
>                    <configuration>
>                        <verbose>true</verbose>
>                        <filesets>
>                            <fileset>
>                                <directory>../../ext</directory>
>                                <followSymlinks>false</followSymlinks>
>                                <includes>
> *                                   <include>abc</include>*
>                                </includes>
>                            </fileset>
>                      </filesets>
>                    </configuration>
>                  </plugin>
> 
> 2009/8/26 grumpypuppy <[email protected]>
> 
>>
>> Hello All,
>> I am trying to delete an additional directory and files inside it with
>> the
>> maven clean plugin.
>> Say, the directory is called "abc".  It resides in "ext" which contains
>> several sub directories. With the configuration below, I am able to
>> delete
>> the *content* of "abc" (both files and directories) but not the directory
>> itself.
>>
>> Any idea how I can delete "abc" as well?  Thank you in advance!
>> P.S. Currently, I have to use the antrun plugin to do so.  It'd be neater
>> if
>> I can do it with the clean plugin :)
>>
>>                 <plugin>
>>                    <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
>>                    <configuration>
>>                        <verbose>true</verbose>
>>                        <filesets>
>>                            <fileset>
>>                                <directory>../../ext</directory>
>>                                <followSymlinks>false</followSymlinks>
>>                                <includes>
>>                                    <include>abc/</include>
>>                                </includes>
>>                                <excludes>
>>                                    <exclude>*</exclude>
>>                                </excludes>
>>                            </fileset>
>>                      </filesets>
>>                    </configuration>
>>                  </plugin>
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Alexander
> 
> 

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