From f4773a7d1fddbd0a12a94cb068830056cdff04a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roberto Gandolfo Hashioka Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 16:47:42 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] - Added delete all the containers example Upstream-commit: 403f9fc357d64ccbdf82e1c4cbad2946eb1d1080 Component: engine --- components/engine/docs/sources/commandline/cli.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/components/engine/docs/sources/commandline/cli.rst b/components/engine/docs/sources/commandline/cli.rst index 4e3d369e14..28fac978f5 100644 --- a/components/engine/docs/sources/commandline/cli.rst +++ b/components/engine/docs/sources/commandline/cli.rst @@ -622,6 +622,15 @@ This will remove the container referenced under the link ``/redis``. This will remove the underlying link between ``/webapp`` and the ``/redis`` containers removing all network communication. +.. code-block:: bash + + $ docker rm `docker ps -a -q` + + +This command will delete all the stopped containers. The command ``docker ps -a -q`` will return all +the existing container's id and the ``rm`` command takes those id's and delete them. The running containers +will not be deleted, even though they will appear on that id's list. + .. _cli_rmi: ``rmi``