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------agent fmt command
The agent fmt command formats a given Grafana Agent Flow configuration file.
Usage
Usage: agent fmt [FLAG ...] FILE_NAME
If the FILE_NAME argument is not provided or if the FILE_NAME argument is equal to -, agent fmt formats the contents of standard input. Otherwise, agent fmt reads and formats the file from disk specified by the argument.
The --write flag can be specified to replace the contents of the original file on disk with the formatted results. --write can only be provided when agent fmt is not reading from standard input.
The command fails if the file being formatted has syntactically incorrect River configuration, but does not validate whether Flow components are configured properly.
The following flags are supported:
--write,-w: Write the formatted file back to disk when not reading from standard input.