How to list containers in Docker

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There s a command to list images  docker images  but there doesn t seem to be a corresponding docker containers   Other than becoming root and looking into  var lib docker there doesn t seem a way to do that  Am I missing something  Is that something one isn t supposed to do

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I got the error message Cannot connect to the Docker daemon  I forgot I am running the daemon as root and needed sudo     sudo docker ps

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To display only running containers  docker ps  To show all containers  includes all states    docker ps -a  To show the latest created container  includes all states    docker ps -l  To show n last created containers  includes all states    docker ps -n -1  To display total file sizes  docker ps -s  In the new version of Docker  commands are updated  and some management commands are added   docker container ls  List all the running containers   docker container ls -a

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There are also the following options  docker container ls docker container ls -a   --all  -a   Show all containers  default shows just running   since  1 13 0  2017-01-18    Restructure CLI commands by adding docker image and docker container commands for more consistency  26025  and as stated here  Introducing Docker 1 13  users are encouraged to adopt the new syntax   CLI restructured In Docker 1 13  we regrouped every command to sit under the logical object it   s interacting with  For example list and start of containers are now subcommands of docker container and history is a subcommand of docker image  These changes let us clean up the Docker CLI syntax  improve help text and make Docker simpler to use  The old command syntax is still supported  but we encourage everybody to adopt the new syntax

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docker ps -s will show the size of running containers only   To check the size of all containers use docker ps -as

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To show only running containers use the given command   docker ps   To show all containers use the given command   docker ps -a   To show the latest created container  includes all states  use the given command   docker ps -l   To show n last created containers  includes all states  use the given command   docker ps -n -1   To display total file sizes use the given command   docker ps -s   The content presented above is from docker com   In the new version of Docker  commands are updated  and some management commands are added   docker container ls   It is used to list all the running containers   docker container ls -a   And then  if you want to clean them all   docker rm   docker ps -aq    It is used to list all the containers created irrespective of its state   And to stop all the Docker containers  force   docker rm -f   docker ps -a -q      Here the container is the management command

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Use docker container ls to list all running containers   Use the flag -a to show all containers  not just running   i e  docker container ls -a  Use the flag -q to show containers and their numeric IDs  i e  docker container ls -q  Visit the documentation to learn all available options for this command

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just a convenient way of getting last n 5 containers  no matter running or not        docker container ls -a -n5

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The Docker command set is simple and holds together well   docker stack ls docker service ls docker image ls docker container ls   Teaching the aliases first is confusing  Once you understand what s going on  they can save some keystrokes   docker images - gt  docker image ls docker ps - gt  docker container ls docker rmi - gt  docker image rm docker rm - gt  docker container rm   There are several aliases in Docker  For instance   docker rmi docker image rm docker image rmi docker image remove   are all the same command  see for your self using docker help image rm

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To list only the containers SHA1   docker ps -aq --no-trunc   That way  you can use the list of all containers for other commands  which accept multiple container ids as parameters    For example  to list only the name of all containers  since docker ps list only their names with other information    docker inspect --format     Name      sudo docker ps -aq --no-trunc

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Note that some time ago there was an update to this command  It will not show the container size by default  since this is rather expensive for many running containers   Use docker ps -s to display container size as well

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docker ps  OPTIONS    Following command will show only running containers by default   docker ps   To see all containers    docker ps -a   For showing the latest created container   docker ps -l

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List running containers -    docker ps  List all containers -    docker ps -a  List only stopped containers -       docker ps --filter  status exited       or        docker ps -f  status exited

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To list all running and stopped containers  docker ps -a   To list all running containers  just stating the obvious and also example use of -f filtering option   docker ps -a -f status running   To list all running and stopped containers  showing only their container id  docker ps -aq   To remove all containers that are NOT running  docker rm  docker ps -aq -f status exited

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There are many ways to list all containers      You can find using 3 Aliasesls  ps  list like this    sudo docker container ls  sudo docker container ps sudo docker container list sudo docker ps sudo docker ps -a   You can also use give option option    Options -     -a  --all             Show all containers  default shows just running    -f  --filter filter   Filter output based on conditions provided       --format string   Pretty-print containers using a Go template   -n  --last int        Show last created containers  includes all states   default -1    -l  --latest          Show the latest created container  includes all states        --no-trunc        Don t truncate output   -q  --quiet           Only display numeric IDs   -s  --size            Display total file sizes   You can use an option like this   sudo docker ps   Showing only running containers sudo docker ps -a   All container  running   stopped  sudo docker pa -l    latest sudo docker ps -n  lt int valuse 1 2 3 etc gt    latest number of created containers sudo docker ps -s    Display container with size sudo docker ps -q    Only display numeric IDs for containers docker docker ps -a   tail -n 1   oldest container

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