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Does anyone have recommendations (pref existing ones) for gradle plugins that turn a directory of files (text files in my case) into a .kt file with string vals holding the contents of the files?

you mean like const val fileName = "file content"?

script.kts

That can be achieved with just a few lines of scripting. Consider this <https://gist.github.com/mpetuska/a3167f5848ea9b6f657a06d0e2c1bc72|script>. You can either make it executable (`chmod +x script.kts` ) and run it as any other script (the extension can even be removed) like `./script.kts targetDir out.kt` , or alternativelly run it with kotlin compiler directly `kotlinc -script script.kts targetDir out.kt`

You can copy that into a gradle task, too, if you want it integrated into your build (just add it as a dependency for the `compileKotlin` task for your source set, and ideally setup caching inputs &amp; outputs).

Or use [buildconfig](<https://github.com/gmazzo/gradle-buildconfig-plugin>) to handle the generation

A custom task will do. It is just that I will be using such a task in many places, so maybe better to write it as a plugin?