--- title: npm-prefix section: 1 description: Display prefix --- ### Synopsis ```bash 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 config`](/commands/npm-config) for more detail. ### Example ```bash npm prefix /usr/local/projects/foo ``` ```bash npm prefix -g /usr/local ``` ### Configuration #### `global` * Default: false * Type: Boolean Operates in "global" mode, so that packages are installed into the `prefix` folder instead of the current working directory. See [folders](/configuring-npm/folders) for more on the differences in behavior. * packages are installed into the `{prefix}/lib/node_modules` folder, instead of the current working directory. * bin files are linked to `{prefix}/bin` * man pages are linked to `{prefix}/share/man` ### See Also * [npm root](/commands/npm-root) * [npm bin](/commands/npm-bin) * [npm folders](/configuring-npm/folders) * [npm config](/commands/npm-config) * [npmrc](/configuring-npm/npmrc)