npm-prefix - Display prefix Synopsis npm prefix [-g] Note: This command is unaware of workspaces. Description Print the local prefix to standard output. This is the closest parent directory to contain a package.json file or node_modules directory, unless -g is also specified. If -g is specified, this will be the value of the global prefix. See npm help config for more detail. Example npm prefix /usr/local/projects/foo npm prefix -g /usr/local Configuration global o Default: false o Type: Boolean Operates in "global" mode, so that packages are installed into the pre- fix folder instead of the current working directory. See npm help fold- ers for more on the differences in behavior. o packages are installed into the {prefix}/lib/node_modules folder, instead of the current working directory. o bin files are linked to {prefix}/bin o man pages are linked to {prefix}/share/man See Also o npm help root o npm help bin o npm help folders o npm help config o npm help npmrc
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NAME
npm-prefix - Display prefix
Synopsis
npm prefix [-g]
Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.
Description
Print the local prefix to standard output. This is the closest parent
directory to contain a package.json file or node_modules directory,
unless -g is also specified.
If -g is specified, this will be the value of the global prefix. See
npm help config for more detail.
Example
npm prefix
/usr/local/projects/foo
npm prefix -g
/usr/local
Configuration
global
o Default: false
o Type: Boolean
Operates in "global" mode, so that packages are installed into the pre-
fix folder instead of the current working directory. See npm help fold-
ers for more on the differences in behavior.
o packages are installed into the {prefix}/lib/node_modules folder,
instead of the current working directory.
o bin files are linked to {prefix}/bin
o man pages are linked to {prefix}/share/man
See Also
o npm help root
o npm help bin
o npm help folders
o npm help config
o npm help npmrc
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | runtime/nodejs/nodejs-18 |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Pass-thru volatile |
+---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://github.com/nodejs/node/ar-
chive/v18.1.0.zip.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://github.com/nodejs/node.
April 2022 NPM-PREFIX(1)