How to Exclude directory and its contents in gradle war

Question

I am using gradle war plugin, I am trying to exclude some directories inside WEB-INF directory while packing a war, but the excludes don\'t seem to

Answer 1

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war {
// remove classes from the classpath <<<<<<<
classpath = configurations.runtime

// add them in explicitly, with the filtering applied
webInf {
    into('classes') {
        from sourceSets.main.classes
        exclude 'org/gradle/sample/excludeme/**'
    }
}
}