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

For a container named foo: docker ps -a --no-trunc --filter name=^/foo$

This really should be noted at https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/ps/

May you explain what ^/ means? Thank you.l

It’s 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 re…

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 …

docker ps -a --format "table {{.Names}}" | grep <EXACT_NAME>

[image] dejanualex: docker ps -a --format "table {{.Names}}" | grep <EXACT_NAME> I’d 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: [image] …

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 --fi…

You can use a variable, but You are using an array which you can’t use as a filter. You need to convert that array to a regex. the filter can’t 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 m…

How to filter docker ps by exact name?

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marius311 (Marius311) August 14, 2015, 8:15pm 3

Ah thanks. And docker ps | awk '{print $NF}' | grep -w foo to be safer in case one of the other columns matches (and removing Docker’s filtering which you don’t really need).

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