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How to remove generated build artifacts from Maven's target directory? Maven generates a jar or war file to target directory. I'd like to remove that file after maven has installed the jar/war file to local repository (that is, after maven has executed the 'install' goal). The remove could happen either at install goal or separate goal I execute manually.
Note, that I'd like leave other parts of target directory intact, for example target/site and target/surefire-reports.
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To delete the target directory, run mvn clean on your project directly from the command line. That will delete the target directory as expected. In contrast, running Run As > Maven clean from Eclipse for some reason leaves the target directory and subdirectories classes and test-classes.
If you want to explicitly remove a single artifact from the cache, use purge-local-repository with the manualInclude parameter. For example, from the command line: mvn dependency:purge-local-repository -DmanualInclude="groupId:artifactId, ..."
The Maven Clean Plugin will delete the target directory by default. You may configure it to delete additional directories and files.
The Maven Clean Plugin, as the name implies, attempts to clean the files and directories generated by Maven during its build. While there are plugins that generate additional files, the Clean Plugin assumes that these files are generated inside the target directory.
Just use the clean plugin and run an execution after the install phase:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>auto-clean</id>
<phase>install</phase>
<goals>
<goal>clean</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<filesets>
<fileset>
<directory>${project.build.outputDirectory}</directory>
<includes>
<include>**/*.jar</include>
</includes>
</fileset>
</filesets>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
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