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-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache license, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the license for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the license.
- */
-package org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util;
-
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.picocli.CommandLine.Option;
-
-public class BasicCommandLineArguments {
-
- @Option(names = { "--help", "-?", "-h" }, usageHelp = true, description =
"Prints this help and exits.")
- private boolean help;
-
- public boolean isHelp() {
- return help;
- }
-
- public void setHelp(final boolean help) {
- this.help = help;
- }
-
-}
