How to read source code about Task

If I want to know the source code about clean Task,I can not find a good way to know the source code about clean task.can you tell me the good way to learn gradle task .(I know that I can clone the gradle source code ,but it is hard to find a task)

hey,

you can run

>gradle help --task :clean 

to learn more about e.g. the clean task. This gives you also the class name of the task.

Detailed task information for :clean

Path
     :clean

Type
     Delete (org.gradle.api.tasks.Delete)

Description
     Deletes the build directory.

Group
     build
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Thank you.it is helpful for me to learn gradle

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