You can use
npm info [package name] version | head -n1
to print just the latest package version, for example:
npm info @angular/cli version | head -n1
The head -n1 part is neccessary to suppress unwanted npm info messages. Just running the command without head -n1 :
npm info @angular/cli version
prints the following output:
12.2.6 npm notice npm notice New minor version of npm available! 7.21.1 -> 7.24.0 npm notice Changelog: https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v7.24.0 npm notice Run npm install -g [email protected] to update! npm notice
I typically use the node:latest docker container instead of a local npm to find the latest version of an npm package:
docker run -it --rm node:latest npm info meshcommander version | head -n1
At the time of writing this article, the command prints
0.9.0-d