Docker list containers by name or id with filter

sudo docker container ls -a --filter "name=test"
    
    
    

sudo docker container ls -a --filter "id=aebdb5b15af4"
    
    
    

sudo docker ps -a
    
    
    

sudo docker container ls -a
    
    
    

$ sudo docker ps -a
    CONTAINER ID   IMAGE          COMMAND                  CREATED       STATUS                   PORTS     NAMES
    aebdb5b15af4   shortvideos    "/bin/bash"              6 hours ago   Exited (0) 5 hours ago             shortvideos
    d091d8ef32df   5144a558dd2d   "/bin/sh -c 'sudo ap…"   2 days ago    Exited (1) 2 days ago              bold_booth
    d18ddc78d9cc   4dd79dc77086   "/bin/sh -c 'adduser…"   2 days ago    Exited (1) 2 days ago              nice_hertz
    0c714ca39b6d   cee4c80266eb   "/bin/sh -c 'adduser…"   2 days ago    Exited (1) 2 days ago              sad_chebyshev
    9cc13ba45331   ubuntu         "bash"                   2 days ago    Exited (0) 2 days ago              agitated_pasteur
    
    

Transcript

i want to show you a very simple way of

listing

docker containers and filtering them

right

so it's very common that while you're

working with docker

you want to list the containers for

instance like this

like this exactly so

like this for instance you can list them

all

with a dash a now um

here there's a lot of like different

things you can have like different names

like this contains the one i use to

record videos for instance

all others are like the default ubuntu

image

you can have here a lot of containers

right and the more you use docker

probably the more containers you will

have here

so um what i want to show you is a way

to filter this and it's very easy it's

always the same syntax

so it makes it very very intuitive um

well first of all just saying that uh

you can use the syntax to show all of

them

uh so the docker container ls

or you can just use the docker ps

is the same thing and the command i'm

about to show you

the command option the filter works with

both right so in the documentation it's

not very clear that it works also with

the ps but it also works

um so let's see what is this about so

basically you add the filter flag

and then you can add here any any option

right so for instance

if i want to filter by name you can see

here that the name of this one is short

videos

so i just filter by names that contain

videos

i can do like filter

name videos

and then i get only that one right so

it's quite useful also

here says equals it just contains um

so this would be for names but the same

would work for ids

so um i have one id here

just check instance

check the same one but the idea right

container id

and you can see here that we can input

id

equals and the id and it works right so

um this is an easy way to remember

because it's always the same option this

filter

it works for both container

and ps also probably you should use

container

but it works and the documentation is

not so clear that this filter works for

ps also

so this is a small trick that you can

use to to filter whenever you

you want to filter the docker containers

that you have so i hope it's useful for

you