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How to run a shell command inside a running Docker container
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  1. Get the container's name (this is different from tag or id)
docker ps
  1. Run the command
docker exec -it NAME_OF_CONTAINER sh
  1. ???
  2. Profit

Bonus: To get the content of a file in shell, use cat NAME_OF_YOUR_FILE.

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