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title: Docker rm
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## Docker rm
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`docker rm` removes containers by their name or ID.
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When you have Docker containers running, you first need to stop them before deleting them.
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- Stop all running containers: `docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)`
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- Delete all stopped containers: `docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)`
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### Remove multiple containers
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You can stop and delete multiple containers by passing the commands a list of the containers you want to remove. The shell syntax `$()` returns the results of whatever is executed within the brackets. So you can create your list of containers within this to be passed to the `stop` and `rm` commands.
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##### Here is a breakdown of docker ps -a -q
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- `docker ps` list containers
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- `-a` the option to list all containers, even stopped ones. Without this, it defaults to only listing running containers
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- `-q` the quiet option to provide only container numeric IDs, rather than a whole table of information about containers
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#### More Information:
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- [Docker CLI docs: rm](https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/rm/)
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