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?
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.