<h1><a href="../api/npm-pack.html">npm-pack</a></h1> <p>Create a tarball from a package</p> <h2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2> <pre><code>npm.commands.pack([packages,] callback) </code></pre><h2 id="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 fetch it to the cache, and then copy the tarball to the current working directory as <code><name>-<version>.tgz</code>, and then write the filenames out to stdout.</p> <p>If the same package is specified multiple times, then the file will be overwritten the second time.</p> <p>If no arguments are supplied, then npm packs the current package folder.</p>