I always appreciate your feedback @cscs . Being a relatively new to gnu/linux user still… I always make sure to post my questions if something looks questionable. Whether that be a command or the end result of a command.
But as the commands I ran were just generating lists, I wasn’t too concerned about them as it was my intention to follow one sage piece of advise…
… i.e. no plan to run sudo pip install -r pip_list_sudo.txt in my case.