npm-prefix

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 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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