From 7529e6ca844f8f6fba1a33134e837aad6482781b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darren Kavanagh <dkav@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:28:02 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Do force update of npm

Do a force update of npm when it is outdated. Addresses issue -https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/611
---
 Node/npm_update.sh | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Node/npm_update.sh b/Node/npm_update.sh
index 84bc7c2..07c6159 100755
--- a/Node/npm_update.sh
+++ b/Node/npm_update.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,12 @@ if [ -x "$(command -v npm)" ]; then
             pver="$(cut -d@ -f2 <<<"$npkg")"
             pkg="$(cut -d@ -f1 <<<"$npkg")"
             echo "Updating $pkg ($cver-->$pver)"
-            npm install --global --no-progress --quiet $npkg 1>/dev/null
+            if [[ $npkg =~ "npm" ]]; then
+                npm install --force --global --no-progress --quiet \
+                    $npkg 1>/dev/null
+            else
+                npm install --global --no-progress --quiet $npkg 1>/dev/null
+            fi
         done
     else
         echo "No packages to update"