Remove Docker containers & images

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List all exited containers

docker ps -aq -f status=exited

Remove stopped containers

docker ps -aq --no-trunc | xargs docker rm This command will not remove running containers, only an error message will be printed out for each of them.

Remove dangling/untagged images

docker images -q --filter dangling=true | xargs docker rmi

Remove containers created after a specific container

docker ps --since a1bz3768ez7g -q | xargs docker rm

Remove containers created before a specific container

docker ps --before a1bz3768ez7g -q | xargs docker rm Use --rm for docker build Use --rm together with docker build to remove intermediary images during the build process.