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Before the `dart format` command was added to the core Dart SDK, users accessed the formatter by running a separate `dartfmt` executable that was included with the Dart SDK. That executable had a different CLI interface. For example, you had to pass `-w` to get it to overwrite files and if you passed no arguments at all, it silently sat there waiting for input on stdin. When we added `dart format`, we took that opportunity to revamp the CLI options.
However, the dart_style package still exposed an executable with the old CLI. If you ran `dart pub global activate dart_style`, this would give you a `dartfmt` (and `dartformat`) executable with the old CLI options. Now that almost everyone is using `dart format`, we have removed the old CLI and the old package executables.
You can still run the formatter on the CLI through the package (for example, if you want to use a particular version of dart_style instead of the one bundled with your Dart SDK). But it now uses the exact same CLI options and arguments as the `dart format` command. You can invoke it with `dart run dart_style:format <args...>`.
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