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?

How to filter docker ps by exact name?

sapjpp (Joe) August 14, 2015, 8:06pm 2

docker ps -f name=foo | grep -w foo

should do it!

-Joe

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