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npm-home: Open the GitHub repository of a specific package in the web browser.
$ npm-home -g ${package}
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The command you provided, npm-home -g ${package}, is a command-line command that is used with npm (Node Package Manager) to determine the installation directory of a specific globally installed package referred to by the ${package} placeholder.

Explanation of the command and its components:

  • npm-home is an npm command-line utility used to retrieve the installation directory of a specific package.
  • -g is a flag that indicates that we are interested in the globally installed packages. Globally installed packages are installed in a location accessible system-wide, rather than being specific to a particular project.
  • ${package} is a placeholder that should be replaced with the name of the package you want to find the installation directory for.

For example, if you wanted to find the installation directory for the package named "lodash", you would replace ${package} with "lodash" like this: npm-home -g lodash. This command would then display the installation directory of the globally installed "lodash" package.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.
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