<h1><ahref="../api/npm-pack.html">npm-pack</a></h1><p>Create a tarball from a package</p><h2id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2><pre><code>npm.commands.pack([packages,] callback)</code></pre><h2id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2><p>For anything that's installable (that is, a package folder, tarball,tarball url, name@tag, name@version, or name), this command will fetchit to the cache, and then copy the tarball to the current workingdirectory as <code><name>-<version>.tgz</code>, and then write the filenames out tostdout.</p><p>If the same package is specified multiple times, then the file will beoverwritten the second time.</p><p>If no arguments are supplied, then npm packs the current package folder.</p>