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diff --git a/doc/cli/list.md b/doc/cli/list.md index 93d86cd83..3dd709b62 100644 --- a/doc/cli/list.md +++ b/doc/cli/list.md @@ -3,20 +3,26 @@ npm-ls(1) -- List installed packages ## SYNOPSIS - npm list - npm ls - npm la - npm ll + npm list [<pkg> ...] + npm ls [<pkg> ...] + npm la [<pkg> ...] + npm ll [<pkg> ...] ## DESCRIPTION This command will print to stdout all the versions of packages that are installed, as well as their dependencies, in a tree-structure. -It does not take positional arguments, though you may set config flags -like with any other command, such as `-g` to list global packages. +Positional arguments are `name@version-range` identifiers, which will +limit the results to only the paths to the packages named. Note that +nested packages will *also* show the paths to the specified packages. +For example, running `npm ls promzard` in npm's source tree will show: -It will print out extraneous, missing, and invalid packages. + npm@@VERSION@ /path/to/npm + └─┬ init-package-json@0.0.4 + └── promzard@0.1.5 + +It will show print out extraneous, missing, and invalid packages. When run as `ll` or `la`, it shows extended information by default. |