How to recreate a virtual env in python

Question

I have installed virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper on Ubuntu 16.04 I have created one enviroment named env1

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ pip install vi         


        

Answer 1

pip install virtualenvwrapper and use the cpvirtualenv command

cpvirtualenv ENVNAME [TARGETENVNAME]

http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#cpvirtualenv

Remember to heed the warning

Copying virtual environments is not well supported. Each virtualenv has 
path information hard-coded into it, and there may be cases where the copy 
code does not know to update a particular file. Use with caution.