How to exclude all files under a directory in Gradle?

Question

packagingOptions {
 exclude 'org/apache/commons/codec/language/bm/gen_approx_portuguese.txt'
}

For example, this one will exclude 1 file. But how to exclude all file under a directory?

like: org/apache/commons/codec/language/bm/
folder? . does not work :)

Answer 1

wild card can be used to enforce action to multiple file in directory. See this:-

packagingOptions {
 exclude 'org/apache/commons/codec/language/bm/*'
}

You can also exclude a file/directory with out specifying the full path this way:-

packagingOptions {
    exclude '**/language/bm/*'
}

Note: this will exclude any language/bm/ any where in the path

Answer 2

This is for Kotlin DSL (build.gradle.kts) and AGP (Android Gradle Plugin) version 7.0.0 and newer:

android {
  // ...
  packagingOptions {
    resources.excludes += "org/apache/commons/codec/language/bm/*"
    // OR
    // resources.excludes += setOf(
    //   "org/apache/commons/codec/language/bm/*"
    // )
  }
}