n the specified location (global
or local) will be updated.</p>
<p>As of <code>npm@2.6.1</code>, the <code>npm update</code> will only inspect top-level packages.
Prior versions of <code>npm</code> would also recursively inspect all dependencies.
To get the old behavior, use <code>npm --depth 9999 update</code>.</p>
<h2 id="examples">EXAMPLES</h2>
<p>IMPORTANT VERSION NOTE: these examples assume <code>npm@2.6.1</code> or later.  For
older versions of <code>npm</code>, you must specify <code>--depth 0</code>