docker ps -f name=foo returns all containers whose name contains foo. What if I want to just ps on the container whose name is exactly foo?
docker ps -f name=foo | grep -w foo
should do it!
-Joe
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Ah thanks. And docker ps | awk '{print $NF}' | grep -w foo to be safer in case one of the other columns matches (and removing Dockerās filtering which you donāt really need).
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For a container named foo:
docker ps -a --no-trunc --filter name=^/foo$
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This really should be noted at https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/ps/
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May you explain what ^/ means? Thank you.l
Itās regular expression syntax. The caret(^) at the beginning is to match the beginning of the name rather than anywhere in the name and the dollar($) at the end means to match the end of a line.
It appears that as far as search filters are concerned names are prefixed with a slash(/) - so ^/ is required to match the start of a name.
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docker ps -a | awk '{print $NF}' | grep -w "$containerName" | cat
When you are using in scripts, use this instead. As grep being at the end of pipeline causes the script to exit, so accepted solution didnt workout for me.
Also docker filter is bad, use awk instead, cleaner approach if you want to match exact names. I had containers with names like $containerName-old4. Docker filter will pick these as well.
docker ps -a --format "table {{.Names}}" | grep <EXACT_NAME>
Iād add the -w flag to grep, to limit matches to words (or use ^<EXACT_NAME>$), for otherwise <EXACT_NAME> may still yield a partial match to another longer name? But like noted in an earlier answer:
So, without grep, if for some reason one only wants the container name (which, of course, will simply match what is searched for, just like with the grep example), this may suffice:
docker ps -a --format "{{.Names}}" --filter name=^/<EXACT_NAME>$
(Not sure about having multiples names for a single container?)
Hello I am trying to do something like this but be able to put it into a variable
exclude_containers_to_stop=(
"MariaDB"
"Redis"
)
#Suppose to get the ID of the containers from the list above (Doesn't work) Still need to get the ID only as well
mapfile -t container_names_IDs < <(docker ps --filter 'name="${exclude_containers_to_stop[@]}"')
# Gets the ID's of all docker containers
mapfile -t container_ids < <(docker container ls -q 2>/dev/null)
The containers names are as typed above I manually checked it with docker ps and copied and paste them.
The problem is when I run this command I donāt get any output. My goal is to get this to get the container IDās of those with the names above and the ability to add more as needed. I then need to match them something like the sample code below:
if [["${container_ids[@]}" == "${container_names_IDs [@]}"; then
docker container stop X
else
echo "Container X"
fi
Again I am not sure if the code above is the best or even possible to do it that way.
Any help would be great.
You can use a variable, but
- You are using an array which you canāt use as a filter. You need to convert that array to a regex.
- the filter canāt contain a quoatation mark. By using apostrophes around the filter the quotation marks will be added to the string which is not in the image name. Not to mention that you canāt use a variable between apostrophes in shell.
This should work
--filter "name=^($(echo "${exclude_containers_to_stop[*]}" | tr ' ' '|'))$"
Without the variable it would look like this:
--filter "name=^(MariaDB|Redis)$"
But if you can label the containers, you could do it easier. For example you would use a āstoppable=1ā label or something like that and filter to labels.
On the other hand, in your case a simple grep would be even more easier:
docker ps -a --format '{{ .Names }}' \
| grep -E -v "^($(echo "${exclude_containers_to_stop[*]}" | tr ' ' '|'))$" \
| xargs -I '{}' -- docker stop '{}'
This would not just filter to the containers but stop all the containers which are not named as MAriaDB or Redis
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Thank you so much. I am by no means good at this. I will give that a try. Any other tips you can think of or help would be appreciated!
It should pretty much solve your whole problem, so no, I donāt have more tips unless you have more questions. 
I have tried adding it to a script I am trying to modify and want to know your thoughts. It is an rsync script that backups my computer but I am having to modify it a lot for my needs, do you think this will work? The original code it commented out.
if [[ "$remote_dst_path" ]] || [[ ! "$ssh_login" ]]; then
mapfile -t container_ids < <(docker container ls -q 2>/dev/null)
fi
if [[ ${#container_ids[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
echo "Stop containers:"
#Changed Command
docker ps -a --format '{{ .Names }}' | grep -E -v "^($(echo "${exclude_containers_to_stop[*]}" | tr ' ' '|'))$" | xargs -I '{}' -- docker stop '{}'
# docker container stop "${container_ids[@]}"
This topic is about using the docker ps command and filter the list of containers by name. Not to mention that it was already marked as solved, so I wouldnāt start to discuss backup strategies and bash syntax. You can try the script in a test environment and see if it works or not. Search for ācheck if variable is emptyā on Google. If you want to discuss it further, please open a new topic,. Thank you.
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