S:\#test>npm init
This utility will walk you through creating a package.json file.
It only covers the most common items, and tries to guess sensible defaults.

See `npm help init` for definitive documentation on these fields
and exactly what they do.

Use `npm install <pkg>` afterwards to install a package and
save it as a dependency in the package.json file.

Press ^C at any time to quit.
package name: (#test) test-the-hash-for-npm-link
version: (1.0.0)
description:
entry point: (index.js)
test command:
git repository:
keywords:
author:
license: (ISC)
About to write to S:\#test\package.json:

{
  "name": "test-the-hash-for-npm-link",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}


Is this OK? (yes)

S:\#test>ls
'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

S:\#test>dir
 Volume in drive S has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 0E8F-6BAF

 Directory of S:\#test

03.07.2022  17:47    <DIR>          .
03.07.2022  17:47    <DIR>          ..
03.07.2022  17:47               222 package.json
               1 File(s)            222 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  53 127 081 984 bytes free

S:\#test>code package.json

S:\#test>npm link
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! path S:\/package.json
npm ERR! errno -4058
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'S:\package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\PsychoX\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2022-07-03T15_49_16_433Z-debug-0.log

S:\#test>

0 verbose cli C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js
1 info using npm@8.13.2
2 info using node@v16.13.1
3 timing npm:load:whichnode Completed in 0ms
4 timing config:load:defaults Completed in 2ms
5 timing config:load:file:C:\Program Files\nvm\v16.13.1\node_modules\npm\npmrc Completed in 1ms
6 timing config:load:builtin Completed in 1ms
7 timing config:load:cli Completed in 2ms
8 timing config:load:env Completed in 0ms
9 timing config:load:file:S:\#test\.npmrc Completed in 1ms
10 timing config:load:project Completed in 2ms
11 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\PsychoX\.npmrc Completed in 1ms
12 timing config:load:user Completed in 1ms
13 timing config:load:file:C:\Program Files\nodejs\etc\npmrc Completed in 1ms
14 timing config:load:global Completed in 1ms
15 timing config:load:validate Completed in 0ms
16 timing config:load:credentials Completed in 1ms
17 timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 1ms
18 timing config:load Completed in 11ms
19 timing npm:load:configload Completed in 12ms
20 timing npm:load:mkdirpcache Completed in 1ms
21 timing npm:load:mkdirplogs Completed in 1ms
22 verbose title npm link
23 verbose argv "link"
24 timing npm:load:setTitle Completed in 0ms
25 timing config:load:flatten Completed in 2ms
26 timing npm:load:display Completed in 4ms
27 verbose logfile logs-max:10 dir:C:\Users\PsychoX\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs
28 verbose logfile C:\Users\PsychoX\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2022-07-03T15_49_16_433Z-debug-0.log
29 timing npm:load:logFile Completed in 5ms
30 timing npm:load:timers Completed in 0ms
31 timing npm:load:configScope Completed in 0ms
32 timing npm:load Completed in 24ms
33 timing arborist:ctor Completed in 1ms
34 silly logfile start cleaning logs, removing 1 files
35 silly logfile done cleaning log files
36 timing idealTree:init Completed in 6ms
37 timing idealTree Completed in 8ms
38 timing command:link Completed in 24ms
39 verbose stack Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'S:\package.json'
40 verbose cwd S:\#test
41 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.19043
42 verbose node v16.13.1
43 verbose npm  v8.13.2
44 error code ENOENT
45 error syscall open
46 error path S:\/package.json
47 error errno -4058
48 error enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'S:\package.json'
49 error enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
49 error enoent
50 verbose exit -4058
51 timing npm Completed in 142ms
52 verbose unfinished npm timer reify 1656863356547
53 verbose unfinished npm timer reify:loadTrees 1656863356558
54 verbose unfinished npm timer idealTree:userRequests 1656863356566
55 verbose code -4058
56 error A complete log of this run can be found in:
56 error     C:\Users\PsychoX\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2022-07-03T15_49_16_433Z-debug-0.log