PIP-FREEZE(1)

💅 PIP-FREEZE(1) 💅

ok so this is pip-freeze, and yes bestie it lives in the pip manual — section 1, one-shot commands, the whole vibe 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

pip-freeze — literally the whole description of the pip freeze command, right here, no gatekeeping 🌸

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

it outputs your installed packages in requirements format. that's it. that's the tweet 💖

and the packages come out in a case-insensitive sorted order — yes, that specific, no cap ✨ (so Django and django land next to each other, iykyk)

🌈 USAGE 🌈

python -m pip freeze [options]

run it exactly like that, bestie. python -m pip, not just pip, that's the vibe they're giving us 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay this is the part you actually came for, let's go 🔥

• -r, --requirement <file> — use the order from the given requirements file and its comments when generating the output. and the real tea: this option can be used multiple times 👑
• -l, --local — if you're in a virtualenv that has global access, this says "don't output the globally-installed packages." keep it local, keep it cute 💜
• --user — only output packages installed in user-site. that's the whole assignment 🎀
• --path <path> — restrict the listing to the specified installation path. and yes, can be used multiple times ✨
• --all — do not skip these packages in the output: distribute, setuptools, pip, wheel. by default these get skipped, so this is the "no, show me everything" flag 🙈
• --exclude-editable — exclude editable packages from the output. bye felicia 👋
• --exclude <package> — exclude the specified package from the output. hand-pick who doesn't make the cut 💀

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

the pip developers 🌈 (icons, all of them)

🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

The pip developers — that's the copyright line, word for word, respect the paper trail 🫶

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ngl this page is short but it ate 💅 no skips, no filler, just freeze behaviour. go forth and <pink>freeze</pink> your little heart out.

and that's a wrap bestie 🧚 — this was version 22.3, dated Jun 25, 2025, see you in the next manpage 👑💖