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.TH "NPM\-PACK" "3" "August 2014" "" ""
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.SH "NAME"
\fBnpm\-pack\fR \- Create a tarball from a package
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.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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.nf

npm\.commands\.pack([packages,] callback)
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.fi
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
For anything that\'s installable (that is, a package folder, tarball, tarball url, name@tag, name@version, or name), this command will fetch it to the cache, and then copy the tarball to the current working directory as \fB<name>\-<version>\.tgz\fR, and then write the filenames out to stdout\.
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.P
If the same package is specified multiple times, then the file will be overwritten the second time\.
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.P
If no arguments are supplied, then npm packs the current package folder\.