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How to remove unused Docker containers and images
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May 8, 2018

I wrote this four years ago, so instead use this command:

$ docker rmi $(docker images -q -f dangling=true)
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Kejk23 commented Jul 31, 2022

docker ps -a -q | % { docker rm $_ }
docker images -q | % { docker rmi $_ }

thank you so much

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