But maybe you can use an

eachFile { ... }

closure where you check whether the target file exists and if so

exclude()

it or something like that.

weird..how do i get the right scope for the eachFile?

eachFile *{* file *->* file.exclude() *}*

build.gradle.kts:43:14: Type mismatch: inferred type is ([Error type: Cannot infer a lambda parameter type]) -> ??? but Closure<(raw) Any!>! was expected

ah, seems i can just use it as this scope. but, oddly the lambda variables behave weirdly here. i suppose it confuses gradle kts' inferencing, so i would need to somehow expliclty specify whatever type that is meh, i can just do it without file ->

it's even more weird because

it

is invalid. it doesn't auto generate the

it

like kotlin normally does?