PIP-CACHE(1)

📦 version 23.2.1, in centos-stream 9

💅 PIP-CACHE(1) 💅

okay so welcome to the pip manual page for pip cache, bestie — literally the whole PIP-CACHE(1) vibe. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

pip-cache — description of pip cache command. That's the name, no cap. 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Bestie, this is where you inspect and manage pip's wheel cache. It's giving very useful, very slay. 💅

Subcommands, in all their iconic glory:

  • dir: Show the cache directory. 🎀
  • info: Show information about the cache. ✨
  • list: List filenames of packages stored in the cache. 🌸
  • remove: Remove one or more package from the cache. 💀
  • purge: Remove all items from the cache. 🔥

<pattern> can be a glob expression or a package name. periodt. ✨

🌈 USAGE 🌈

python -m pip cache dir
python -m pip cache info
python -m pip cache list [<pattern>] [--format=[human, abspath]]
python -m pip cache remove <pattern>
python -m pip cache purge

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --format <list_format> — selects the output format among: human (the default) or abspath. That's the option, bestie; it ate. 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The author is pip developers. Iconic behavior. 👑

The copyright belongs to The pip developers. Respect the copyright, bestie. 💜

xoxo, this page is from source/version 23.2, dated Jun 25, 2025 — signing off from the pip manual's PIP-CACHE(1) era 🫶💖

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