Maven - how to delete contents of a folder during a clean phase?

Question

in my project I have a folder called war. It is initially empty and it\'s under version control. The folder gets populated by Maven during its package

Answer 1

In my case I needed to delete the "bin" directory, and all it's subdirectory contents. I did this in my parent pom.xml:

    ${basedir}
      
        **/bin/**
       
      false

This found any bin directory within my project, and deleted any contents of the bin folder.