fix: shell command syntax

[dnhn]

Problem

I followed the instructions and got this error when running an NPM package globally:

Path "/Users/me/~/.npm-global/lib/node_modules" does not exist.
Please check the NODE_PATH environment variable.

In .npmrc the prefix was set to:

prefix=~/.npm-global

~ is not expanded here so NPM looks for a literal ~/ path instead of the home directory.

Solution

Use the absolute path instead:

prefix=/Users/me/.npm-global

Run npm config without quotes around the path so that ~ is properly expanded.