Felipe Gentil

Stop and remove Docker containers

13 Mar 2017

Quickest way to stop and remove your Docker containers all at once…

You’re probably familiar that

$ docker ps

will list your containers. With

$ docker ps -q

you have only their container ids.

In this way, a simple way to stop your running containers is

$ docker stop $(docker ps -q)

You can also include in this list your already-exited containers by running

$ docker stop $(docker ps -qa)

In order to remove them, all you have to run is

$ docker rm $(docker ps -qa)

Cheers :)