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find-global-packages
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find-global-packages
one module to rule them all, one module to find them, one module to bring them all
and in the darkness, lexically bind them
find all globally installed packages, resolving to a list of directories representing global packages.
var findGlobal = require('find-global-packages')
findGlobal(function(err, dirs) {
// dirs will be a list of strings representing
// paths to globally installed packages.
})
API
findGlobal(ready :Function(err :{Error|null}, dirs :Array<String>))
Takes a single node-style callback, resolves to either an error or a list
of directories. Directories are vetted by the presence of a file called
package.json (but not its contents).
License
MIT
FAQs
find all global packages, list them by directory
The npm package find-global-packages receives a total of 75 weekly downloads. As such, find-global-packages popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that find-global-packages demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 12 Mar 2014
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