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Cole W
Cole W

Reputation: 15303

TFS Build Delete all files matching pattern before publishing

I'm trying to delete all files in any directory matching a set of patterns in my build output directory before publishing and it's not finding anything that matches the pattern I have defined. The pattern I'm using is:

**\?(*.cfg|*.config|*.xml)\**

I enabled system.debug in my build and I can see the following file being seen in the source directory I specified:

2018-03-12T00:43:31.5264940Z ##[debug] C:\agent3\_work\3\nsis_workspace\AutoBagPack.log4net.config 2018-03-12T00:43:31.5264940Z ##[debug] is a file

The above file should match the *.config portion of my minimatch pattern but at the end of the log for this task I see:

2018-03-12T00:43:32.4327498Z ##[debug]2454 results 2018-03-12T00:43:32.4327498Z ##[debug]match patterns: C:\agent3\_work\3\nsis_workspace\**\?(*.cfg|*.config|*.xml)\** 2018-03-12T00:43:32.4327498Z ##[debug]match options: [object Object] 2018-03-12T00:43:32.4327498Z ##[debug]applying pattern: C:\agent3\_work\3\nsis_workspace\**\?(*.cfg|*.config|*.xml)\** 2018-03-12T00:43:32.5108753Z ##[debug]matched 0 items

My source path is defined as and can be seen in the log as:

2018-03-12T00:43:31.4952438Z ##[debug]SourceFolder=C:\agent3\_work\3\nsis_workspace 2018-03-12T00:43:31.4952438Z ##[debug]BuildCleanup=null 2018-03-12T00:43:31.4952438Z ##[debug]patterns: C:\agent3\_work\3\nsis_workspace\**\?(*.cfg|*.config|*.xml)\**

Why are all the *.cfg, *.config, *.xml files not being deleted?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 556

Answers (1)

starian chen-MSFT
starian chen-MSFT

Reputation: 33698

Using this code instead in Delete Files task (multiple lines):

**/*.cfg
**/*.xml
**/*.config

Or

**/?(*.xml|*.cfg|*.config)

Upvotes: 4

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