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<h1><a href="../cli/npm-prefix.html">npm-prefix</a></h1> <p>Display prefix</p>
<h2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
<pre><code>npm prefix [-g]
</code></pre><h2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<p>Print the local prefix to standard out. This is the closest parent directory
to contain a package.json file unless <code>-g</code> is also specified.</p>
<p>If <code>-g</code> is specified, this will be the value of the global prefix. See
<code><a href="../misc/npm-config.html">npm-config(7)</a></code> for more detail.</p>
<h2 id="see-also">SEE ALSO</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="../cli/npm-root.html">npm-root(1)</a></li>
<li><a href="../cli/npm-bin.html">npm-bin(1)</a></li>
<li><a href="../files/npm-folders.html">npm-folders(5)</a></li>
<li><a href="../cli/npm-config.html">npm-config(1)</a></li>
<li><a href="../misc/npm-config.html">npm-config(7)</a></li>
<li><a href="../files/npmrc.html">npmrc(5)</a></li>
</ul>