How to Recursively Delete wildcard files in TFS Build?

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Published on 2010-01-19T07:47:48Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 21:14 UTC
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I want to recursively delete files that match a certain pattern as part of my post-build cleanup routines in TFS Build. I've tried this...

<Delete Files="T:\DeploymentDir\**\A*" />

No errors in the build, but it doesn't work.

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