Removing not running containers

It might occurred to you that you want to delete all docker containers that are not running any more.
you can do it one by one or if they are a lot it might be time consuming.



first of all we use following command to list all containers.

then we want to delete containers with exited or created status:

docker rm $(docker ps -a | grep 'Exited\|Created' | cut -d" " -f1)

let me explain it a little bit, when we use docker ps -a we list all containers with "| grep 'Exited\|Created'" we grep for Exited or Created status, then we pick the container ID with cut command and finally we remove them all. keep that in mind that we are giving $(docker ps -a | grep 'Exited\|Created' | cut -d" " -f1) as Argument to the docker command.