<!doctype html> <html> <title>npm-help-search</title> <meta charset="utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../static/style.css"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.npmjs.org/doc/cli/npm-help-search.html"> <script async=true src="../../static/toc.js"></script> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <h1><a href="../cli/npm-help-search.html">npm-help-search</a></h1> <p>Search npm help documentation</p> <h2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2> <pre><code>npm help-search <text></code></pre><h2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2> <p>This command will search the npm markdown documentation files for the terms provided, and then list the results, sorted by relevance.</p> <p>If only one result is found, then it will show that help topic.</p> <p>If the argument to <code>npm help</code> is not a known help topic, then it will call <code>help-search</code>. It is rarely if ever necessary to call this command directly.</p> <h2 id="configuration">CONFIGURATION</h2> <h3 id="long">long</h3> <ul> <li>Type: Boolean</li> <li>Default: false</li> </ul> <p>If true, the "long" flag will cause help-search to output context around where the terms were found in the documentation.</p> <p>If false, then help-search will just list out the help topics found.</p> <h2 id="see-also">SEE ALSO</h2> <ul> <li><a href="../cli/npm.html">npm(1)</a></li> <li><a href="../cli/npm-help.html">npm-help(1)</a></li> </ul> </div> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 id=npmlogo> <tr><td style="width:180px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=18> </td></tr> <tr><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4> </td><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td><td colspan=6 style="width:60px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2 style="width:20px;height:30px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=4 colspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:20px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3 colspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=2> </td></tr> <tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td></tr> <tr><td style="width:60px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=6> </td><td colspan=10 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=5 style="width:50px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=4> </td><td style="width:90px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=9> </td></tr> </table> <p id="footer">npm-help-search — npm@6.5.0</p>