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title: npm-unpublish
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npm unpublish [<package-spec>]
To learn more about how the npm registry treats unpublish, see our
unpublish policies.
Consider using the deprecate command instead,
if your intent is to encourage users to upgrade, or if you no longer
want to maintain a package.
This removes a package version from the registry, deleting its entry and
removing the tarball.
The npm registry will return an error if you are not logged
in.
If you do not specify a package name at all, the name and version to be
unpublished will be pulled from the project in the current directory.
If you specify a package name but do not specify a version or if you
remove all of a package's versions then the registry will remove the
root package entry entirely.
Even if you unpublish a package version, that specific name and version
combination can never be reused. In order to publish the package again,
you must use a new version number. If you unpublish the entire package,
you may not publish any new versions of that package until 24 hours have
passed.
dry-runIndicates that you don't want npm to make any changes and that it should
only report what it would have done. This can be passed into any of the
commands that modify your local installation, eg, install, update,dedupe, uninstall, as well as pack and publish.
Note: This is NOT honored by other network related commands, eg dist-tags,owner, etc.
forceRemoves various protections against unfortunate side effects, common
mistakes, unnecessary performance degradation, and malicious input.
npm version command to work on an unclean git repository.npm cache clean.engines declaration requiring aengines declaration requiring anode, even if --engine-strict is enabled.npm audit fix to install modules outside your stated dependency--yes during npm init.npm pkgIf you don't have a clear idea of what you want to do, it is strongly
recommended that you do not use this option!
workspaceEnable running a command in the context of the configured workspaces of the
current project while filtering by running only the workspaces defined by
this configuration option.
Valid values for the workspace config are either:
When set for the npm init command, this may be set to the folder of a
workspace which does not yet exist, to create the folder and set it up as a
brand new workspace within the project.
This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.
workspacesSet to true to run the command in the context of all configured
workspaces.
Explicitly setting this to false will cause commands like install to
ignore workspaces altogether. When not set explicitly:
node_modules tree (install, update, etc.)node_modules folder. - Commands that doworkspace config.This value is not exported to the environment for child processes.