How to tell if npm package was installed globally or locally

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AndraeRay picture AndraeRay · Sep 29, 2014 · Viewed 89.2k times · Source

I am installing grunt, node, npm, bower, and grunt-cli on windows7.

The instructions say i should run the install commands with -g flag for global.

How can I check if I used the -g flag when i installed. It will take a lot of time to uninstall them and reinstall.

Answer

Muntaser Ahmed picture Muntaser Ahmed · Sep 29, 2014

Use the list command with the -g flag to see all packages that are installed globally:

npm list -g

To check if a specific package is installed globally, you can provide the name of package (grunt in this case) as seen below:

npm list -g grunt

Or you can use grep to filter on package names:

npm list -g | grep grunt

Source: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/ls

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