"npm --prefix ./path install ./path" installs binary files under ./path rather than ./path/node_modules/.bin

[zzwx]

Versions of relevant software used
0.14.0

What happened
I'm trying to automate stuff from another directory.

What you expected to happen
protoc-gen-ts
protoc-gen-ts.cmd
protoc-gen-ts.ps1

should appear under node_modules/.bin instead of project directory.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

npm --prefix ./path install ./path without node_modules

Also repeated attempts to do the same lead to

npm ERR! code EEXIST
npm ERR! path "PATH"\node_modules\ts-protoc-gen\bin\protoc-gen-ts
npm ERR! dest "PATH"\protoc-gen-ts.cmd
npm ERR! EEXIST: file already exists, cmd shim '"PATH"\node_modules\ts-protoc-gen\bin\protoc-gen-ts' -> "PATH_TWO_LEVELS_UP"
\grpc\grpcwebclient\protoc-gen-ts.cmd'
npm ERR! File exists: PATH\protoc-gen-ts.cmd
npm ERR! Remove the existing file and try again, or run npm
npm ERR! with --force to overwrite files recklessly.

(Where PATH and PATH_TWO_LEVELS_UP are project-dependent with PATH_TWO_LEVELS_UP being 2 levels up from PATH)

Environment:

• OS: Windows 10

[zzwx]

yarn --cwd ./path works as intended. So it might be an npm bug.

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