PIP-CACHE(1)

🎀 PIP-CACHE(1) — the pip manual, but make it cute 🎀

okay bestie so real talk: this is the pip-cache(1) page from the pip manual set, and it's genuinely one of the most underrated little corners of the whole thing. it's all about your wheel cache. let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

pip-cache — literally the description of the pip cache command. that's it, that's the name. iconic brevity, no notes 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does it do? it lets you inspect and manage pip's wheel cache. like, look at it, poke it, clean it out. main character energy for your disk space, fr fr.

here are the subcommands, one per bullet, no skips:

• dir — Show the cache directory. 📁
• info — Show information about the cache. ℹ️
• 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. 💀 (dramatic but accurate)

and a lil note about patterns: <pattern> can be a glob expression or a package name. so like, you can be fancy with the wildcards or just say the name. both ate. ✨

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🌈 USAGE 🌈

here's the whole vibe, verbatim, don't touch the code bestie:

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

like, look at that. clean. organized. slay.

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🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• --format <list_format> — picks the output format for you, bestie. the choices are human (that's the default, she's the moment) or abspath. that's it. those are the two. no cap. 💅
  • also! there's an environment variable you can set instead: PIP_FORMAT 🌸

ngl, remembering that PIP_FORMAT exists is a flex. iykyk.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

pip developers 👑 (the whole crew, we love them)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

The pip developers 💜 (yes, same people, they also hold the copyright, as one does)

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and that's the whole page, bestie! 🎀 you now know pip-cache better than most people know their own passwords.

signing off — this was version 25.1, dated Jun 26, 2025, and it's a whole vibe. mwah 💋✨