global-paths

Returns an array of unique "global" directories based on the user's platform and environment. The resulting paths can be used for doing lookups for generators or other globally installed npm packages. Node.js / JavaScript.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save global-paths

Usage

var paths = require('global-paths');
console.log(paths());
 
// results in (with my setup - macbook pro)
[ '/Users/jonschlinkert/dev/path-utils/global-paths/node_modules',
  '/usr/local/lib/node_modules',
  '/Users/jonschlinkert/dev/path-utils/node_modules',
  '/Users/jonschlinkert/dev/node_modules',
  '/Users/jonschlinkert/node_modules',
  '/Users/node_modules',
  '/usr/lib/node_modules',
  '/node_modules' ]

About

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• global-prefix: Get the npm global path prefix. | homepage

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Contributors

Commits	Contributor
6	jonschlinkert
1	gucong3000

Building docs

(This document was generated by verb-generate-readme (a verb generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in .verb.md.)

To generate the readme and API documentation with verb:

$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT license.

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