Again, please tell me if there is a better way to do this.
While testing docker, frequently I need to start/stop/rm containers. I got real sick of having to ls them and copy paste the container ID.
Using this alias, I just have to remember a single part of the name of the container, and I will get the container IDs that can then be included as part of another command:
$ alias dcl='_dcl(){ docker container ls -aq -f name="$1";}; _dcl'
$ dcl snikket
b3fcbc808cc9
1947885fbb24
054d67d2e8b9
d8fe9df5f61f
So now that I’m getting a list of IDs, I can easily, for example, pause all of them:
$ docker container pause $( dcl snikket )
Error response from daemon: container is not running
Error response from daemon: container is not running
Error response from daemon: container is not running
Error response from daemon: container is not running
The containers weren’t actually running, but this shows the alias working.
dcl obviously stands for ‘docker container ls’
This works but I’d just create a function and use that instead of creating an alias that creates a function and then calls itself.
if your containers are created with a docker compose file you can use docker-compose to target them all
Is there a way to do this without cd-ing to the directory with the compose file first?
You can use -f /path/to/compose.yaml to call it from wherever you like.