# How do I find a node on my machine?

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-find-a-node-on-my-machine/30746>\
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**Created:** [26 July 2020 23:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-find-a-node-on-my-machine/30746 "2020-07-26T23:22:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [26 July 2020 23:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-find-a-node-on-my-machine/30746/1 "2020-07-26T23:22:44Z")

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I'm on a quest.

In the left of the screen I see a node. Alas its name isn't congruent with what it really is.

How do I find this node in the CLI?  
I want to go in and edit it. I have done this before but can't remember back that far to where it is.

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [26 July 2020 23:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-find-a-node-on-my-machine/30746/2 "2020-07-26T23:32:14Z")

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Well, you may feel it's name is incongruous, but with out sharing it, you are limiting our ability to point you in a definitive direction.

It might be a core node. It might be a contrib node you've installed. We dont know.

Assuming it isn't a core node, then it will most likely be under `~/.node-red/node_modules`.

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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [26 July 2020 23:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-find-a-node-on-my-machine/30746/3 "2020-07-26T23:33:29Z")

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Sorry. Not it is not a core node.

It is ..... from:

[PiFace CAD.](https://github.com/erfanjahanshahlo/node-red-contrib-pifacecad.git)

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [26 July 2020 23:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-find-a-node-on-my-machine/30746/4 "2020-07-26T23:35:30Z")

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Ok, so start with `~/.node-red/node_modules/node-red-contrib-pifacecad`

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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [26 July 2020 23:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-find-a-node-on-my-machine/30746/5 "2020-07-26T23:37:00Z")

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(Big blush... )

Guess what.... You are right. (When aren't you?)

Oh dear. Sorry. Just in the `edit` screen it is just called `pfc_lcd` and that is for what I was searching. Silly me.

To stop me making the same mistake again, is there a way I can edit the code so it shows up in the `edit` screen as `pifacecad`?  
Scratch that. I am looking and I think that would require a lot of work.

I think I had just better write it down on a piece of paper.

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**Author:** ![kuema](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/kuema/32/6542_2.png) [@kuema](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/kuema)\
**Post date:** [27 July 2020 04:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-find-a-node-on-my-machine/30746/6 "2020-07-27T04:39:31Z")

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Or you could just use the palette manager, search for `pfc_lcd` and would have found the package in question. 😉

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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [27 July 2020 05:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-find-a-node-on-my-machine/30746/7 "2020-07-27T05:38:29Z")

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Yes, but the node name - which I now know has to be set to something - wasn't pfc\_lcd. It was just display.

So when I opened it and saw "display", it threw me.

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**Author:** ![kuema](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/kuema/32/6542_2.png) [@kuema](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/kuema)\
**Post date:** [27 July 2020 05:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-find-a-node-on-my-machine/30746/8 "2020-07-27T05:45:58Z")

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The package + registered node name is also displayed in the palette tooltip. (checked on NR 1.1)

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**Author:** ![Trying\_to\_learn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/trying_to_learn/32/28400_2.png) [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)\
**Post date:** [27 July 2020 05:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-find-a-node-on-my-machine/30746/9 "2020-07-27T05:49:00Z")

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I know now.

I hope I don't repeat the mistake in the future.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [10 August 2020 05:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-do-i-find-a-node-on-my-machine/30746/10 "2020-08-10T05:49:08Z")

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