pip-freeze - Man Page

• List installed packages: pip freeze
• List installed packages and write it to the requirements.txt file: pip freeze > requirements.txt
• List installed packages in a virtual environment, excluding globally installed packages: pip freeze --local > requirements.txt
• List installed packages in the user-site: pip freeze --user > requirements.txt
• List all packages, including pip, distribute, setuptools, and wheel (they are skipped by default): pip freeze --all > requirements.txt

tldr.sh

Output installed packages in requirements format.

packages are listed in a case-insensitive sorted order.

python -m pip freeze [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.

-l,  --local

If in a virtualenv that has global access, do not output globally-installed packages.

--user

Only output packages installed in user-site.

--path <path>

Restrict to the specified installation path for listing packages (can be used multiple times).

--all

Do not skip these packages in the output: pip

--exclude-editable

Exclude editable package from output.

--exclude <package>

Exclude specified package from the output

pip developers

The pip developers

pip(1).

The man pages pip-3.12-freeze(1), pip3.12-freeze(1), pip-3-freeze(1) and pip3-freeze(1) are aliases of pip-freeze(1).