Your pip is a soft link to the same executable file path with pip3. you can use the commands below to check where your pip and pip3 real paths are:
$ ls -l `which pip`
$ ls -l `which pip3`
You may also use the commands below to know more details:
$ pip show pip
$ pip3 show pip
When we install different versions of python, we may create such soft links to
- set default pip to some version.
- make different links for different versions.
It is the same situation with python, python2, python3
More information below if you’re interested in how it happens in different cases:
