The following works for me in Gradle / Groovy for build.gradle
for an Android project, without having to import groovy.io.FileType
(NOTE: Does not recurse subdirectories, but when I found this solution I no longer cared about recursion, so you may not either):
FileCollection proGuardFileCollection = files { file('./proguard').listFiles() }
proGuardFileCollection.each {
println "Proguard file located and processed: " + it
}