I want to programmatically fetch the id of a running container and stop it. However, I’m a little lost
Here’s the command I use to fetch the id of the running container:
docker ps -q --no-trunc --format="{{.ID}}" --filter "ancestor=<repo-name>"
How do I pass the output of this command to
docker stop <id>
I’m new to docker, thus the question. TIA
>Solution :
If you are using bash, you can use back ticks to evaluate a command and substitute in the command output, in your case:
docker stop `docker ps -q --no-trunc --format="{{.ID}}" --filter "ancestor=<repo-name>"`
Please, consider read this related Unix Stackexchange question, it may be of help as well.
As suggested in the linked question, you can use the $(...) syntax as well:
docker stop $(docker ps -q --no-trunc --format="{{.ID}}" --filter "ancestor=<repo-name>")
Although I don’t know in this specific use case, the $(...) syntax has the further advantage of working with PowerShell too.