List of only stopped Docker containers

Question

Docker allows you to list running containers or all containers, including stopped ones.

This can be done with:

$ docker ps # To list running containers 

or

 $ docker ps -a # To list running and stopped containers 

Do we have a way to only list containers that were stopped?

Answer 1

Only stopped containers can be listed with:

 docker ps --filter "status=exited" 

or

 docker ps -f "status=exited" 

Answer 2

Typical command:

 docker container ls -f 'status=exited' 

However, in this list only one of the possible idle statuses will be indicated. Here is a list of all possible statuses:

• created
• restart
• works
• removal
• was silent
• came out
• dead

You can filter multiple statuses by passing multiple status filters:

 docker container ls -f 'status=exited' -f 'status=dead' -f 'status=created' 

If you integrate this using an automatic cleanup script, you can associate one command with another with some bash syntax, display only the container identifier with -q , and restrict only containers that successfully complete the exit code filter:

 docker container rm $(docker container ls -q -f 'status=exited' -f 'exited=0') 

For more information on the filters you can use, see the Docker documentation: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/ps/#filtering

Answer 3

 docker container list -f "status=exited" 

or

 docker container ls -f "status=exited" 

or

  docker ps -f "status=exited"