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.TH "NPM\-CONFIG" "1" "March 2013" "" ""
.
.SH "NAME"
\fBnpm-config\fR \-\- Manage the npm configuration file
.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.
.nf
npm config set <key> <value> [\-\-global]
npm config get <key>
npm config delete <key>
npm config list
npm config edit
npm get <key>
npm set <key> <value> [\-\-global]
.
.fi
.
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
npm gets its configuration values from 6 sources, in this priority:
.
.SS "Command Line Flags"
Putting \fB\-\-foo bar\fR on the command line sets the \fBfoo\fR configuration parameter to \fB"bar"\fR\|\.  A \fB\-\-\fR argument tells the cli
parser to stop reading flags\.  A \fB\-\-flag\fR parameter that is at the \fIend\fR of
the command will be given the value of \fBtrue\fR\|\.
.
.SS "Environment Variables"
Any environment variables that start with \fBnpm_config_\fR will be interpreted
as a configuration parameter\.  For example, putting \fBnpm_config_foo=bar\fR in
your environment will set the \fBfoo\fR configuration parameter to \fBbar\fR\|\.  Any
environment configurations that are not given a value will be given the value
of \fBtrue\fR\|\.  Config values are case\-insensitive, so \fBNPM_CONFIG_FOO=bar\fR will
work the same\.
.
.SS "Per\-user config file"
\fB$HOME/\.npmrc\fR (or the \fBuserconfig\fR param, if set above)
.
.P
This file is an ini\-file formatted list of \fBkey = value\fR parameters\.
Environment variables can be replaced using \fB${VARIABLE_NAME}\fR\|\. For example:
.
.IP "" 4
.
.nf
prefix = ${HOME}/\.npm\-packages
.
.fi
.
.IP "" 0
.
.SS "Global config file"
\fB$PREFIX/etc/npmrc\fR (or the \fBglobalconfig\fR param, if set above):
This file is an ini\-file formatted list of \fBkey = value\fR parameters\.
Environment variables can be replaced as above\.
.
.SS "Built\-in config file"
\fBpath/to/npm/itself/npmrc\fR
.
.P
This is an unchangeable "builtin"
configuration file that npm keeps consistent across updates\.  Set
fields in here using the \fB\|\./configure\fR script that comes with npm\.
This is primarily for distribution maintainers to override default
configs in a standard and consistent manner\.
.
.SS "Default Configs"
A set of configuration parameters that are internal to npm, and are
defaults if nothing else is specified\.
.
.SH "Sub\-commands"
Config supports the following sub\-commands:
.
.SS "set"
.
.nf
npm config set key value
.
.fi
.
.P
Sets the config key to the value\.
.
.P
If value is omitted, then it sets it to "true"\.
.
.SS "get"
.
.nf
npm config get key
.
.fi
.
.P
Echo the config value to stdout\.
.
.SS "list"
.
.nf
npm config list
.
.fi
.
.P
Show all the config settings\.
.
.SS "delete"
.
.nf
npm config delete key
.
.fi
.
.P
Deletes the key from all configuration files\.
.
.SS "edit"
.
.nf
npm config edit
.
.fi
.
.P
Opens the config file in an editor\.  Use the \fB\-\-global\fR flag to edit the
global config\.
.
.SH "Shorthands and Other CLI Niceties"
The following shorthands are parsed on the command\-line:
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-v\fR: \fB\-\-version\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-?\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR, \fB\-H\fR: \fB\-\-usage\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR: \fB\-\-loglevel silent\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR: \fB\-\-loglevel warn\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-d\fR: \fB\-\-loglevel info\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-dd\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR: \fB\-\-loglevel verbose\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-ddd\fR: \fB\-\-loglevel silly\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-g\fR: \fB\-\-global\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-l\fR: \fB\-\-long\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-m\fR: \fB\-\-message\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-porcelain\fR: \fB\-\-parseable\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-reg\fR: \fB\-\-registry\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-v\fR: \fB\-\-version\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-f\fR: \fB\-\-force\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-desc\fR: \fB\-\-description\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-S\fR: \fB\-\-save\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-D\fR: \fB\-\-save\-dev\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-O\fR: \fB\-\-save\-optional\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-B\fR: \fB\-\-save\-bundle\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-y\fR: \fB\-\-yes\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fB\-n\fR: \fB\-\-yes false\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\fBll\fR and \fBla\fR commands: \fBls \-\-long\fR
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
If the specified configuration param resolves unambiguously to a known
configuration parameter, then it is expanded to that configuration
parameter\.  For example:
.
.IP "" 4
.
.nf
npm ls \-\-par
# same as:
npm ls \-\-parseable
.
.fi
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
If multiple single\-character shorthands are strung together, and the
resulting combination is unambiguously not some other configuration
param, then it is expanded to its various component pieces\.  For
example:
.
.IP "" 4
.
.nf
npm ls \-gpld
# same as:
npm ls \-\-global \-\-parseable \-\-long \-\-loglevel info
.
.fi
.
.IP "" 0
.
.SH "Per\-Package Config Settings"
When running scripts (see \fBnpm help scripts\fR)
the package\.json "config" keys are overwritten in the environment if
there is a config param of \fB<name>[@<version>]:<key>\fR\|\.  For example, if
the package\.json has this:
.
.IP "" 4
.
.nf
{ "name" : "foo"
, "config" : { "port" : "8080" }
, "scripts" : { "start" : "node server\.js" } }
.
.fi
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
and the server\.js is this:
.
.IP "" 4
.
.nf
http\.createServer(\.\.\.)\.listen(process\.env\.npm_package_config_port)
.
.fi
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
then the user could change the behavior by doing:
.
.IP "" 4
.
.nf
npm config set foo:port 80
.
.fi
.
.IP "" 0
.
.SH "Config Settings"
.
.SS "always\-auth"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Force npm to always require authentication when accessing the registry,
even for \fBGET\fR requests\.
.
.SS "bin\-links"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: \fBtrue\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Tells npm to create symlinks (or \fB\|\.cmd\fR shims on Windows) for package
executables\.
.
.P
Set to false to have it not do this\.  This can be used to work around
the fact that some file systems don\'t support symlinks, even on
ostensibly Unix systems\.
.
.SS "browser"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: OS X: \fB"open"\fR, others: \fB"google\-chrome"\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The browser that is called by the \fBnpm docs\fR command to open websites\.
.
.SS "ca"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: The npm CA certificate
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String or null
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The Certificate Authority signing certificate that is trusted for SSL
connections to the registry\.
.
.P
Set to \fBnull\fR to only allow "known" registrars, or to a specific CA cert
to trust only that specific signing authority\.
.
.P
See also the \fBstrict\-ssl\fR config\.
.
.SS "cache"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: Windows: \fB%APPDATA%\\npm\-cache\fR, Posix: \fB~/\.npm\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: path
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The location of npm\'s cache directory\.  See \fBnpm help cache\fR
.
.SS "cache\-lock\-stale"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: 60000 (1 minute)
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Number
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The number of ms before cache folder lockfiles are considered stale\.
.
.SS "cache\-lock\-retries"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: 10
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Number
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Number of times to retry to acquire a lock on cache folder lockfiles\.
.
.SS "cache\-lock\-wait"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Number
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Number of ms to wait for cache lock files to expire\.
.
.SS "cache\-max"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: Infinity
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Number
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The maximum time (in seconds) to keep items in the registry cache before
re\-checking against the registry\.
.
.P
Note that no purging is done unless the \fBnpm cache clean\fR command is
explicitly used, and that only GET requests use the cache\.
.
.SS "cache\-min"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: 10
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Number
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The minimum time (in seconds) to keep items in the registry cache before
re\-checking against the registry\.
.
.P
Note that no purging is done unless the \fBnpm cache clean\fR command is
explicitly used, and that only GET requests use the cache\.
.
.SS "color"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: true on Posix, false on Windows
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean or \fB"always"\fR
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
If false, never shows colors\.  If \fB"always"\fR then always shows colors\.
If true, then only prints color codes for tty file descriptors\.
.
.SS "coverage"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
A flag to tell test\-harness to run with their coverage options enabled,
if they respond to the \fBnpm_config_coverage\fR environment variable\.
.
.SS "depth"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: Infinity
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Number
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The depth to go when recursing directories for \fBnpm ls\fR and \fBnpm cache ls\fR\|\.
.
.SS "description"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: true
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Show the description in \fBnpm search\fR
.
.SS "dev"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Install \fBdev\-dependencies\fR along with packages\.
.
.P
Note that \fBdev\-dependencies\fR are also installed if the \fBnpat\fR flag is
set\.
.
.SS "editor"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: \fBEDITOR\fR environment variable if set, or \fB"vi"\fR on Posix,
or \fB"notepad"\fR on Windows\.
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: path
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The command to run for \fBnpm edit\fR or \fBnpm config edit\fR\|\.
.
.SS "engine\-strict"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
If set to true, then npm will stubbornly refuse to install (or even
consider installing) any package that claims to not be compatible with
the current Node\.js version\.
.
.SS "force"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Makes various commands more forceful\.
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
lifecycle script failure does not block progress\.
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
publishing clobbers previously published versions\.
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
skips cache when requesting from the registry\.
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
prevents checks against clobbering non\-npm files\.
.
.IP "" 0
.
.SS "fetch\-retries"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: 2
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Number
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The "retries" config for the \fBretry\fR module to use when fetching
packages from the registry\.
.
.SS "fetch\-retry\-factor"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: 10
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Number
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The "factor" config for the \fBretry\fR module to use when fetching
packages\.
.
.SS "fetch\-retry\-mintimeout"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: 10000 (10 seconds)
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Number
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The "minTimeout" config for the \fBretry\fR module to use when fetching
packages\.
.
.SS "fetch\-retry\-maxtimeout"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: 60000 (1 minute)
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Number
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The "maxTimeout" config for the \fBretry\fR module to use when fetching
packages\.
.
.SS "git"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: \fB"git"\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The command to use for git commands\.  If git is installed on the
computer, but is not in the \fBPATH\fR, then set this to the full path to
the git binary\.
.
.SS "global"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Operates in "global" mode, so that packages are installed into the \fBprefix\fR folder instead of the current working directory\.  See \fBnpm help folders\fR for more on the differences in behavior\.
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
packages are installed into the \fB{prefix}/lib/node_modules\fR folder, instead of the
current working directory\.
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
bin files are linked to \fB{prefix}/bin\fR
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
man pages are linked to \fB{prefix}/share/man\fR
.
.IP "" 0
.
.SS "globalconfig"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: {prefix}/etc/npmrc
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: path
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The config file to read for global config options\.
.
.SS "globalignorefile"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: {prefix}/etc/npmignore
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: path
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The config file to read for global ignore patterns to apply to all users
and all projects\.
.
.P
If not found, but there is a "gitignore" file in the
same directory, then that will be used instead\.
.
.SS "group"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: GID of the current process
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String or Number
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The group to use when running package scripts in global mode as the root
user\.
.
.SS "https\-proxy"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: the \fBHTTPS_PROXY\fR or \fBhttps_proxy\fR or \fBHTTP_PROXY\fR or \fBhttp_proxy\fR environment variables\.
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: url
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
A proxy to use for outgoing https requests\.
.
.SS "user\-agent"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: node/{process\.version} {process\.platform} {process\.arch}
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Sets a User\-Agent to the request header
.
.SS "ignore"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: ""
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: string
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
A white\-space separated list of glob patterns of files to always exclude
from packages when building tarballs\.
.
.SS "init\-module"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: ~/\.npm\-init\.js
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: path
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
A module that will be loaded by the \fBnpm init\fR command\.  See the
documentation for the init\-package\-json \fIhttps://github\.com/isaacs/init\-package\-json\fR module
for more information, or npm help init\.
.
.SS "init\.version"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: "0\.0\.0"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: semver
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The value \fBnpm init\fR should use by default for the package version\.
.
.SS "init\.author\.name"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: ""
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The value \fBnpm init\fR should use by default for the package author\'s name\.
.
.SS "init\.author\.email"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: ""
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The value \fBnpm init\fR should use by default for the package author\'s email\.
.
.SS "init\.author\.url"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: ""
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The value \fBnpm init\fR should use by default for the package author\'s homepage\.
.
.SS "json"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Whether or not to output JSON data, rather than the normal output\.
.
.P
This feature is currently experimental, and the output data structures
for many commands is either not implemented in JSON yet, or subject to
change\.  Only the output from \fBnpm ls \-\-json\fR is currently valid\.
.
.SS "link"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
If true, then local installs will link if there is a suitable globally
installed package\.
.
.P
Note that this means that local installs can cause things to be
installed into the global space at the same time\.  The link is only done
if one of the two conditions are met:
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
The package is not already installed globally, or
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
the globally installed version is identical to the version that is
being installed locally\.
.
.IP "" 0
.
.SS "loglevel"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: "http"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Values: "silent", "win", "error", "warn", "http", "info", "verbose", "silly"
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
What level of logs to report\.  On failure, \fIall\fR logs are written to \fBnpm\-debug\.log\fR in the current working directory\.
.
.P
Any logs of a higher level than the setting are shown\.
The default is "http", which shows http, warn, and error output\.
.
.SS "logstream"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: process\.stderr
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Stream
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
This is the stream that is passed to the npmlog \fIhttps://github\.com/isaacs/npmlog\fR module at run time\.
.
.P
It cannot be set from the command line, but if you are using npm
programmatically, you may wish to send logs to somewhere other than
stderr\.
.
.P
If the \fBcolor\fR config is set to true, then this stream will receive
colored output if it is a TTY\.
.
.SS "long"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Show extended information in \fBnpm ls\fR
.
.SS "message"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: "%s"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Commit message which is used by \fBnpm version\fR when creating version commit\.
.
.P
Any "%s" in the message will be replaced with the version number\.
.
.SS "node\-version"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: process\.version
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: semver or false
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The node version to use when checking package\'s "engines" hash\.
.
.SS "npat"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Run tests on installation and report results to the \fBnpaturl\fR\|\.
.
.SS "npaturl"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: Not yet implemented
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: url
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The url to report npat test results\.
.
.SS "onload\-script"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: path
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
A node module to \fBrequire()\fR when npm loads\.  Useful for programmatic
usage\.
.
.SS "optional"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: true
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Attempt to install packages in the \fBoptionalDependencies\fR hash\.  Note
that if these packages fail to install, the overall installation
process is not aborted\.
.
.SS "parseable"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Output parseable results from commands that write to
standard output\.
.
.SS "prefix"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: see npm help folders
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: path
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The location to install global items\.  If set on the command line, then
it forces non\-global commands to run in the specified folder\.
.
.SS "production"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Set to true to run in "production" mode\.
.
.IP "1" 4
devDependencies are not installed at the topmost level when running
local \fBnpm install\fR without any arguments\.
.
.IP "2" 4
Set the NODE_ENV="production" for lifecycle scripts\.
.
.IP "" 0
.
.SS "proprietary\-attribs"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: true
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Whether or not to include proprietary extended attributes in the
tarballs created by npm\.
.
.P
Unless you are expecting to unpack package tarballs with something other
than npm \-\- particularly a very outdated tar implementation \-\- leave
this as true\.
.
.SS "proxy"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: \fBHTTP_PROXY\fR or \fBhttp_proxy\fR environment variable, or null
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: url
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
A proxy to use for outgoing http requests\.
.
.SS "rebuild\-bundle"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: true
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Rebuild bundled dependencies after installation\.
.
.SS "registry"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: https://registry\.npmjs\.org/
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.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: url
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.IP "" 0
.
.P
The base URL of the npm package registry\.
.
.SS "rollback"
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.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: true
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.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
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.IP "" 0
.
.P
Remove failed installs\.
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.SS "save"
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.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
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.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
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.IP "" 0
.
.P
Save installed packages to a package\.json file as dependencies\.
.
.P
When used with the \fBnpm rm\fR command, it removes it from the dependencies
hash\.
.
.P
Only works if there is already a package\.json file present\.
.
.SS "save\-bundle"
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.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
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.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
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.IP "" 0
.
.P
If a package would be saved at install time by the use of \fB\-\-save\fR, \fB\-\-save\-dev\fR, or \fB\-\-save\-optional\fR, then also put it in the \fBbundleDependencies\fR list\.
.
.P
When used with the \fBnpm rm\fR command, it removes it from the
bundledDependencies list\.
.
.SS "save\-dev"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
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.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Save installed packages to a package\.json file as devDependencies\.
.
.P
When used with the \fBnpm rm\fR command, it removes it from the devDependencies
hash\.
.
.P
Only works if there is already a package\.json file present\.
.
.SS "save\-optional"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
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.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Save installed packages to a package\.json file as optionalDependencies\.
.
.P
When used with the \fBnpm rm\fR command, it removes it from the devDependencies
hash\.
.
.P
Only works if there is already a package\.json file present\.
.
.SS "searchopts"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: ""
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Space\-separated options that are always passed to search\.
.
.SS "searchexclude"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: ""
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Space\-separated options that limit the results from search\.
.
.SS "searchsort"
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.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: "name"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Values: "name", "\-name", "date", "\-date", "description",
"\-description", "keywords", "\-keywords"
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Indication of which field to sort search results by\.  Prefix with a \fB\-\fR
character to indicate reverse sort\.
.
.SS "shell"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: SHELL environment variable, or "bash" on Posix, or "cmd" on
Windows
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: path
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The shell to run for the \fBnpm explore\fR command\.
.
.SS "sign\-git\-tag"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
If set to true, then the \fBnpm version\fR command will tag the version
using \fB\-s\fR to add a signature\.
.
.P
Note that git requires you to have set up GPG keys in your git configs
for this to work properly\.
.
.SS "strict\-ssl"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: true
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Whether or not to do SSL key validation when making requests to the
registry via https\.
.
.P
See also the \fBca\fR config\.
.
.SS "tag"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: latest
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
If you ask npm to install a package and don\'t tell it a specific version, then
it will install the specified tag\.
.
.P
Also the tag that is added to the package@version specified by the \fBnpm
tag\fR command, if no explicit tag is given\.
.
.SS "tmp"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: TMPDIR environment variable, or "/tmp"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: path
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Where to store temporary files and folders\.  All temp files are deleted
on success, but left behind on failure for forensic purposes\.
.
.SS "unicode"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: true
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
When set to true, npm uses unicode characters in the tree output\.  When
false, it uses ascii characters to draw trees\.
.
.SS "unsafe\-perm"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false if running as root, true otherwise
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Set to true to suppress the UID/GID switching when running package
scripts\.  If set explicitly to false, then installing as a non\-root user
will fail\.
.
.SS "usage"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
Set to show short usage output (like the \-H output)
instead of complete help when doing \fBnpm help help\fR\|\.
.
.SS "user"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: "nobody"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String or Number
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The UID to set to when running package scripts as root\.
.
.SS "username"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: null
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: String
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The username on the npm registry\.  Set with \fBnpm adduser\fR
.
.SS "userconfig"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: ~/\.npmrc
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: path
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The location of user\-level configuration settings\.
.
.SS "userignorefile"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: ~/\.npmignore
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: path
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The location of a user\-level ignore file to apply to all packages\.
.
.P
If not found, but there is a \.gitignore file in the same directory, then
that will be used instead\.
.
.SS "umask"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: 022
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Octal numeric string
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The "umask" value to use when setting the file creation mode on files
and folders\.
.
.P
Folders and executables are given a mode which is \fB0777\fR masked against
this value\.  Other files are given a mode which is \fB0666\fR masked against
this value\.  Thus, the defaults are \fB0755\fR and \fB0644\fR respectively\.
.
.SS "version"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
If true, output the npm version and exit successfully\.
.
.P
Only relevant when specified explicitly on the command line\.
.
.SS "versions"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: false
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: boolean
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
If true, output the npm version as well as node\'s \fBprocess\.versions\fR
hash, and exit successfully\.
.
.P
Only relevant when specified explicitly on the command line\.
.
.SS "viewer"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: "man" on Posix, "browser" on Windows
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: path
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
The program to use to view help content\.
.
.P
Set to \fB"browser"\fR to view html help content in the default web browser\.
.
.SS "yes"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Default: null
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
Type: Boolean or null
.
.IP "" 0
.
.P
If set to \fBnull\fR, then prompt the user for responses in some
circumstances\.
.
.P
If set to \fBtrue\fR, then answer "yes" to any prompt\.  If set to \fBfalse\fR
then answer "no" to any prompt\.
.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
npm help folders
.
.IP "\(bu" 4
npm help npm
.
.IP "" 0