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title: docker container
tags: Docker
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# docker container

### Usage:

docker container COMMAND

> Manage containers

### Commands:

| Commands | Description |
| -------- | -------- |
| attach | Attach local standard input, output, and error streams to a running container
| commit | Create a new image from a container's changes
| cp | Copy files/folders between a container and the local filesystem
| create | Create a new container
| diff | Inspect changes to files or directories on a container's filesystem
| exec | Run a command in a running container
| export | Export a container's filesystem as a tar archive
| inspect | Display detailed information on one or more containers
| kill | Kill one or more running containers
| logs | Fetch the logs of a container
| ls | List containers
| pause | Pause all processes within one or more containers
| port | List port mappings or a specific mapping for the container
| prune | Remove all stopped containers
| rename | Rename a container
| restart | Restart one or more containers
| rm | Remove one or more containers
| run | Run a command in a new container
| start | Start one or more stopped containers
| stats | Display a live stream of container(s) resource usage statistics
| stop | Stop one or more running containers
| top | Display the running processes of a container
| unpause | Unpause all processes within one or more containers
| update | Update configuration of one or more containers
| wait | Block until one or more containers stop, then print their exit codes