npm config delete is not working

Question

I'm trying to delete the prefix config on npm because nvm does not play well with it.

(venv) ip-192-168-0-12:lending jason$ npm config delete -g prefix
(venv) ip-192-168-0-12:lending jason$ npm config delete prefix
(venv) ip-192-168-0-12:lending jason$ npm config get prefix
/Users/jason/Workspace/lending/nenv

However, how matter how I try to delete it, the config just wont go away.

I tried npm config edit and prefix wasn't even in the config file.

Answer 1

Turns out the problem is the environmental variable npm_config_prefix was set.

Just set that to blank: export npm_config_prefix=""