Version: 5.x

pnpm recursive

Runs a pnpm command recursively on all subdirectories in the package or every available workspace. Currently, only the following commands can be used recursively: add, exec, install, list, outdated, publish, rebuild, remove, run, test, unlink, update, why

Aliases: m, multi, <command> -r

Options#

--link-workspace-packages#

Default: true
Type: true, false, deep

Link locally available packages in workspaces of a monorepo into node_modules instead of re-downloading them from the registry. This emulates functionality similar to yarn workspaces.

When this is set to deep, local packages can also be linked to subdependencies.

Be advised that it is encouraged instead to use npmrc for this setting, to enforce the same behaviour in all environments. This option exists solely so you may override that if necessary.

--workspace-concurrency#

Added in: v2.13.0

Default: 4
Type: Number

Set the maximum number of tasks to run simultaneously. For unlimited concurrency use Infinity.

--[no-]bail#

Added in: v2.13.0

Default: true
Type: Boolean

If true, stops when a task throws an error.

This config does not affect the exit code. Even if --no-bail is used, all tasks will finish but if any of the tasks fail, the command will exit with a non-zero code.

Example (run tests in every package, continue if tests fail in one of them):

pnpm -r --no-bail test

--[no-]sort#

Added in: v2.14.0

Default: true
Type: Boolean

When true, packages are sorted topologically (dependencies before dependents). Pass --no-sort to disable.

Example:

pnpm -r --no-sort test

--reverse#

Added in: v5.17.1

Default: false
Type: boolean

When true, the order of packages is reversed.

pnpm -r --reverse run clean

pnpm -r exec#

Added in: v2.9.0

pnpm -r exec -- <command> [args...]

This command runs a command in each package of the monorepo.

The name of the current package is available through the environment variable PNPM_PACKAGE_NAME (supported from pnpm v2.22.0 onwards).

Examples:

# prune node_modules installations for all packagespnpm -r exec -- rm -rf node_modules# view package information for all packagespnpm -r exec -- pnpm view $PNPM_PACKAGE_NAME