You have to specify the Exclude
in absolute path and change the exclude wildcard to include subdirectory
If you use an absolute path for Include
, you must use an absolute path for Exclude
. If you use a relative path for Include
, you must use a relative path for both.
<PropertyGroup>
<RootFolder>c:\temp</RootFolder>
<ExcludeFilter>**\*.tmp</ExcludeFilter>
<StagingDirectory>staging</StagingDirectory>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<InputFile Include="MyFile.txt" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Build">
<ReadLinesFromFile File="@(InputFile)">
<Output ItemName="AllFolders" TaskParameter="Lines" />
</ReadLinesFromFile>
<CreateItem Include="$(RootFolder)\%(AllFolders.RelativeDir)**"
Exclude="$(RootFolder)\%(AllFolders.RelativeDir)$(ExcludeFilter)">
<Output ItemName="AllFiles" TaskParameter="Include" />
</CreateItem>
<Copy SourceFiles="@(AllFiles)"
DestinationFolder="$(StagingDirectory)\%(RecursiveDir)"/>
</Target>
Multiple excludes and absolute path
If you want to exclude multiple items, there is no clean way when you are using absolute path, but you could do with Remove
.
First way : Using Remove and item
<PropertyGroup>
<RootFolder>c:\temp</RootFolder>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<InputFile Include="MyFile.txt" />
<!-- Exclude are defined here -->
<ExcludeFilters Include="$(RootFolder)\**\*.tmp"/>
<ExcludeFilters Include="$(RootFolder)\**\*.bmp"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Build">
<ReadLinesFromFile File="@(InputFile)">
<Output ItemName="AllFolders" TaskParameter="Lines" />
</ReadLinesFromFile>
<CreateItem Include="$(RootFolder)\%(AllFolders.RelativeDir)**">
<Output ItemName="AllFiles" TaskParameter="Include" />
</CreateItem>
<!-- Removing the wrong extension in item -->
<ItemGroup>
<AllFiles Remove="@(ExcludeFilters)"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Copy SourceFiles="@(AllFiles)"
DestinationFolder="$(StagingDirectory)\%(RecursiveDir)"/>
</Target>
Second way : Using Remove and condition
<Target Name="Build">
<ReadLinesFromFile File="@(InputFile)">
<Output ItemName="AllFolders" TaskParameter="Lines" />
</ReadLinesFromFile>
<CreateItem Include="$(RootFolder)\%(AllFolders.RelativeDir)**">
<Output ItemName="AllFiles" TaskParameter="Include" />
</CreateItem>
<!-- Removing the wrong extension in item -->
<ItemGroup>
<AllFiles Remove="@(AllFiles)" Condition="'%(Extension)' == '.tmp'"/>
<AllFiles Remove="@(AllFiles)" Condition="'%(Extension)' == '.bmp'"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Copy SourceFiles="@(AllFiles)"
DestinationFolder="$(StagingDirectory)\%(RecursiveDir)"/>
</Target>