Delete dir with nAnt and exclude sub folder?

Question

I'm looking for my build to delete the contents of a directory without touching a certain folder. Below is what I'm trying, and it even looks wrong to me...aside from the fact that it bombs when I run it. Do I need to be deleting the contents of the dir explicitly and at the same time exclude my Reports folder?

<delete includeemptydirs="true">
      <fileset dir="${PublishLocation}" >
        <exclude name="**Reports**"/>
      </fileset>
    </delete>

Cheers.

Answer 1

It should be:

<delete>
  <fileset basedir="${PublishLocation}">
    <include name="**/*"/>
    <exclude name="**/Reports/**/*" />
  </fileset>
</delete>

Please notice the following:

• includeemptydirs="true" is default
• The attribute for fileset is basedir instead of dir
• if you specify <exclude name="**/Reports/**" /> instead of <exclude name="**/Reports/**/*" /> all files named Reports are kept as well