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[DOCS] The --prefix flag is not documented #8197

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Is there an existing issue for this?

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This is a CLI Docs Enhancement, not another kind of Docs Enhancement.

  • This is a CLI Docs Enhancement.

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I was told to replace this in package.json:

"test:e2e": "cd ./e2e/ & npm run test"

with this:

"test:e2e": "npm --prefix e2e run test"

I failed to find any docs for the --prefix flag. There is only info on the npm prefix command that prints a global prefix, but it's quite vague on what this prefix is and what it's used for.

I've asked Grok 3 in DeepSearch mode, and it claims that the two commands above are not equivalent. But its explanation of the --prefix flag is quite confusing (likely because it has to guess rather than provide factual info based on docs, since --prefix is not documented).

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I don't know if this flag applies to a specific command, all commands or a subset of commands.

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