[jira] [Commented] (LOG4J2-1814) Wrapper Generate$ExtendedLogger name inconvenient on Linux

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Commit d26353cbbb235637839820dc9366059ecec325af in logging-log4j2's branch refs/heads/master from rpopma
[ https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=logging-log4j2.git;h=d26353c ]

LOG4J2-1814 added wrapper classes CustomLoggerGenerator and ExtendedLoggerGenerator to avoid class name with a dollar ($) character which has special meaning in many *nix command line environments


> Wrapper Generate$ExtendedLogger name inconvenient on Linux 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-1814
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1814
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Remko Popma
>            Assignee: Remko Popma
>             Fix For: 2.9
>
>
> The $ExtendedLogger is interpreted as an environment variable. 
> {code}
> $ java -cp log4j-core-2.8.jar org.apache.logging.log4j.core.tools.Generate$ExtendedLogger \
>          com.mycomp.ExtLogger DIAG=350 NOTICE=450 VERBOSE=550 > com/mycomp/ExtLogger.java
> Error: Main method not found in class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.tools.Generate, please define the main method 
> {code}
> The workaround is to quote the class name:
> {code}
> $ java -cp log4j-core-2.8.jar "org.apache.logging.log4j.core.tools.Generate$ExtendedLogger" \
>          com.mycomp.ExtLogger DIAG=350 NOTICE=450 VERBOSE=550 > com/mycomp/ExtLogger.java
> {code}



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