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grunt-contrib-clean v0.6.0
Clean files and folders.
Getting Started
This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.0
If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
npm install grunt-contrib-clean --save-dev
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-clean');
This plugin was designed to work with Grunt 0.4.x. If you're still using grunt v0.3.x it's strongly recommended that you upgrade, but in case you can't please use v0.3.2.
Clean task
Run this task with the grunt clean
command.
Task targets, files and options may be specified according to the grunt Configuring tasks guide.
Due to the destructive nature of this task, always be cautious of the paths you clean.
Options
force
Type: Boolean
Default: false
This overrides this task from blocking deletion of folders outside current working dir (CWD). Use with caution.
no-write
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Will log messages of what would happen if the task was ran but doesn't actually delete the files.
Usage Examples
There are three formats you can use to run this task.
Short
clean: ["path/to/dir/one", "path/to/dir/two"]
Medium (specific targets with global options)
clean: {
build: ["path/to/dir/one", "path/to/dir/two"],
release: ["path/to/another/dir/one", "path/to/another/dir/two"]
},
Long (specific targets with per target options)
clean: {
build: {
src: ["path/to/dir/one", "path/to/dir/two"]
}
}
Skipping Files
// Deletes all .js files, but skips min.js files
clean: {
js: ["path/to/dir/*.js", "!path/to/dir/*.min.js"]
}
"Compact" and "Files Array" formats support a few additional properties which help you deal with hidden files, process dynamic mappings and so on.
Release History
- 2014-07-27 v0.6.0 Less verbose output. README updates.
- 2013-07-15 v0.5.0 Use rimraf directly, version 2.2.1 to fix issue on Windows. Add no-write option to mimic grunt.file.delete behavior.
- 2013-04-16 v0.4.1 Check if file exists to avoid trying to delete a non-existent file.
- 2013-02-15 v0.4.0 First official release for Grunt 0.4.0.
- 2013-01-18 v0.4.0rc6 Updating grunt/gruntplugin dependencies to rc6. Changing in-development grunt/gruntplugin dependency versions from tilde version ranges to specific versions.
- 2013-01-09 v0.4.0rc5 Updating to work with grunt v0.4.0rc5. Switching to this.filesSrc api.
- 2012-12-07 v0.4.0a Conversion to grunt v0.4 conventions. Remove node v0.6 and grunt v0.3 support. Add force option to bypass CWD check.
- 2012-09-23 v0.3.0 Options no longer accepted from global config key.
- 2012-09-10 v0.2.0 Refactored from grunt-contrib into individual repo.
Task submitted by Tim Branyen
This file was generated on Sun Jul 27 2014 17:36:23.