Docker How to delete all local Docker images

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I recently started using Docker and never realized that I should use docker-compose down instead of ctrl-c or docker-compose stop to get rid of my experiments  I now have a large number of unneeded docker images locally    Is there a flag I can run to delete all the local docker images  amp  containers   Something like docker rmi --all --force --all flag does not exist but I am looking for something with similar idea

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Here is the command I used and put it in a batch file to remove everything:

echo "Removing containers :" && if [ -n "$(docker container ls -aq)" ]; then docker container stop $(docker container ls -aq); docker container rm $(docker container ls -aq); fi; echo "Removing images :" && if [ -n "$(docker images -aq)" ]; then docker rmi -f $(docker images -aq); fi; echo "Removing volumes :" && if [ -n "$(docker volume ls -q)" ]; then docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -q); fi; echo "Removing networks :" && if [ -n "$(docker network ls | awk '{print $1" "$2}' | grep -v 'ID|bridge|host|none' | awk '{print $1}')" ]; then docker network rm $(docker network ls | awk '{print $1" "$2}' | grep -v 'ID|bridge|host|none' | awk '{print $1}'); fi;

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Here is short and quick solution I used Docker provides a single command that will clean up any resources     images  containers  volumes  and networks     that are dangling  not associated with a container   docker system prune  To additionally remove any stopped containers and all unused images  not just dangling images   add the -a flag to the command  docker system prune -a    For more details visit link

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Use this to delete everything   docker system prune -a --volumes      Remove all unused containers  volumes  networks and images   WARNING  This will remove      - all stopped containers     - all networks not used by at least one container     - all volumes not used by at least one container     - all images without at least one container associated to them     - all build cache   https   docs docker com engine reference commandline system prune  extended-description

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To delete all images    docker rmi -f   docker images -a   awk   print  3      Explanation       docker images -a   awk   print  3     This command will return all image id s and then used to delete image using its id

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Adding to techtabu s accepted answer  If you re using docker on windows  you can use the following command  for  F  delims    A in   docker ps -a -q   do docker rm  A  here  the command docker ps -a -q lists all the images and this list is passed to docker rm one by one  see this for more details on how this type of command format works in windows cmd

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To delete all images    docker rmi   docker images -a -q    where -a is all  and -q is return only image ids  To remove unused images  and containers    docker system prune   beware as if you are using docker swarm  and your local machine is joining remote swarm  as manager worker   your local will be the deployed repo  executing this thus removes the deployed images

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To delete all Docker local Docker images follow 2 steps     step 1   docker images   list all docker images with ids         example        REPOSITORY    TAG    IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE      pradip564 my  latest 31e522c6cfe4        3 months ago        915MB   step 2   docker image rm 31e522c6cfe4   IMAGE ID          OUTPUT   image deleted

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sudo docker images   docker images    list of images with id sudo docker rm image  lt image id gt    docker rm image  lt image id gt

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Another way with xargs  docker image ls -q   xargs -I    docker image rm -f

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docker image prune -a     Remove all unused images  not just dangling ones  Add -f option to   force    Local docker version  17 09 0-ce  Git commit  afdb6d4  OS Arch  darwin amd64    docker image prune -h Flag shorthand -h has been deprecated  please use --help  Usage   docker image prune  OPTIONS   Remove unused images  Options    -a  --all             Remove all unused images  not just dangling ones       --filter filter   Provide filter values  e g   until  lt timestamp gt      -f  --force           Do not prompt for confirmation       --help            Print usage

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Delete without invoking docker  rm -rf  var lib docker  This directly removes all docker images containers volumes from the filesystem

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You can try like this   docker system prune

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For Unix To delete all containers including its volumes use  docker rm -vf   docker ps -a -q   To delete all the images  docker rmi -f   docker images -a -q   Remember  you should remove all the containers before removing all the images from which those containers were created  For Windows In case you are working on Windows  Powershell    images   docker images -a -q foreach   image in  images    docker image rm  image -f    Based on the comment from CodeSix  one liner for Windows Powershell  docker images -a -q       docker image rm    -f    For Windows using command line  for  F  i in   docker images -a -q   do docker rmi -f  i

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docker rmi   docker images -q  --force

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To simple clear everything do     docker system prune --all   Everything means         all stopped containers   all networks not used by at least one container   all images without at least one container associated to them   all build cache

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Easy and handy commands  To delete all images  docker rmi   docker images -a    To delete containers which are in exited state  docker rm   docker ps -a -f status exited -q    To delete containers which are in created state  docker rm   docker ps -a -f status created -q    NOTE  Remove all the containers then remove the images

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