title: Maven delete external files
body: <p>I am using Eclipse/maven plugin.
  I want to delete external file with aboslute path, i have following example but it claims to delete only relative files which resides inside the project</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;plugin&gt;
                  &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-clean-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;version&gt;2.4.1&lt;/version&gt;
                  &lt;configuration&gt;
                      &lt;filesets&gt;
                          &lt;fileset&gt;
                              &lt;directory&gt;some/relative/path&lt;/directory&gt;
                              &lt;includes&gt;
                                  &lt;include&gt;**/*.tmp&lt;/include&gt;
                                  &lt;include&gt;**/*.log&lt;/include&gt;
                              &lt;/includes&gt;
                              &lt;excludes&gt;
                                  &lt;exclude&gt;**/important.log&lt;/exclude&gt;
                                  &lt;exclude&gt;**/another-important.log&lt;/exclude&gt;
                              &lt;/excludes&gt;
                              &lt;followSymlinks&gt;false&lt;/followSymlinks&gt;
                          &lt;/fileset&gt;
                      &lt;/filesets&gt;
                  &lt;/configuration&gt;
              &lt;/plugin&gt;
  </code></pre>