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section: cli-commands title: npm-prefix

description: Display prefix

npm-prefix(1)

Display prefix

Synopsis

npm prefix [-g]

Description

Print the local prefix to standard out. 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 config for more detail.

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