pip-cache - Man Page

pip-cache — description of pip cache command

IMPORTANT:

Inspect and manage pip's wheel cache.

Subcommands:

• 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.

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

--format <list_format>

Select the output format among: human (default) or abspath

IMPORTANT:

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The man pages pip-3.9-cache(1), pip3.9-cache(1), pip-3-cache(1) and pip3-cache(1) are aliases of pip-cache(1).