docker-command.md

There are more ways to use command output as arguments for other commands. The following three commands are all equivalent

docker rmi `docker images -qa`
docker rmi $(docker images -qa)
docker images -qa | xargs docker rmi

To keep the file short we will use only one. If you feel like typing the commands yourself, choose the one that seems faster to you

Images

Remove all images

docker rmi $(docker images -qa)

Remove untagged images

docker images -q --filter dangling=true | xargs docker rmi

Update all local images

docker images |grep -v REPOSITORY|awk '{print $1}'|xargs -L1 docker pull

Containers

Stop the most recent ran container

docker stop $(docker ps -q -n1)

Stop all running containers

docker stop `docker ps -q`

Remove all stopped containers

docker rm $(docker ps -aq)

Remove containers created before/after a specific container

# before
docker ps --before a1bz3768ez7g -q | xargs docker rm

# after
docker ps --since a1bz3768ez7g -q | xargs docker rm

List all exited containers

docker ps -aq -f status=exited

Stop all containers

docker stop docker ps -qa

Remove all containers

docker rm docker ps -qa

Remove all images

docker rmi -f docker images -qa

Remove all volumes

docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf)

Remove all networks

docker network rm docker network ls -q

Your installation should now be all fresh and clean.

The following commands should not output any items:

docker ps -a docker images -a docker volume ls

The following command show only show the default networks:

docker network ls

{"mode":"full","isActive":false}

Best practices

1. Use --rm together with docker build to remove intermediary images during the build process.