Docker removing unused images and container

While learning docker and following through dozens of tutorials around the web, the amount of new images I downloaded and containers I created can easily be above the 50-60 scale…

The problem with that, is that most of them are not used!

most of them have the annoying “” in the image name, and all the containers are stopped.

I decided to start clearing stuff, so even though I would be happy to go one by one… I decided to batch the process, and here the 2 tiny commands that could help you as well.

remove all stopped containers:

docker rm $(docker ps -a | grep -v Up | awk '{print $1}')

how it works?

• ” docker ps -a ” – lists all containers
• ” grep -v Up ” select only the rows where the container is not “Up”
• ” awk ‘{print $1}’ ” take only the container id
• now after we took all the stopped container ids we simply remove them with the docker command.

remove all images with :

docker rmi $(docker images | grep "<none>" | awk '{print $3}')

how it works?

• ” docker images ” – list all images
• ” grep “” ” – take only the ones that contain
• ” awk ‘{print $3}’ ” – grab their ids
• now remove them with the docker command