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NPM-PREFIX(1) NPM-PREFIX(1)

npm-prefix - Display prefix

npm prefix [-g]

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.

npm prefix
/usr/local/projects/foo

npm prefix -g
/usr/local

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