PIP-FREEZE(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to PIP-FREEZE(1) from the pip manual — this is the page for pip-freeze, aka the description of the pip freeze command. iykyk ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

pip freeze outputs your installed packages in requirements format. the packages are listed in a case-insensitive sorted order — yes, the sort is not out here being case-sensitive, periodt. 💅

🌸 USAGE 🌸

python -m pip freeze [options]

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -r, --requirement <file> — use the order in the given requirements file and its comments when generating output. this option can be used multiple times. (environment variable: PIP_REQUIREMENT) 🎀
• -l, --local — if you’re in a virtualenv that has global access, do not output globally-installed packages. (environment variable: PIP_LOCAL) 🫶
• --user — only output packages installed in user-site. (environment variable: PIP_USER) 🌸
• --path <path> — restrict to the specified installation path for listing packages; can be used multiple times. (environment variable: PIP_PATH) 🦋
• --all — do not skip these packages in the output: distribute, setuptools, wheel, pip. (environment variable: PIP_ALL) 🔥
• --exclude-editable — exclude editable package from output. (environment variable: PIP_EXCLUDE_EDITABLE) 🙈
• --exclude <package> — exclude specified package from the output. (environment variable: PIP_EXCLUDE) 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the author is pip developers, no cap. 🫶

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

copyright goes to The pip developers. 💖

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