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podman-rm(1)		     General Commands Manual		    podman-rm(1)

NAME
     podman-rm - Remove one or more containers

SYNOPSIS
     podman rm [options] container

     podman container rm [options] container

DESCRIPTION
     podman rm removes one or more containers from the host.  The container name
     or  ID can be used.  This does not remove images.	Running or unusable con-
     tainers are not removed without the -f option.

OPTIONS
   --all, -a
     Remove all containers.  Can be used in conjunction with -f as well.

   --cidfile=file
     Read container ID from the specified file and rm  the  container.	 Can  be
     specified multiple times.

     Command does not fail when file is missing and user specified --ignore.

   --depend
     Remove selected container and recursively remove all containers that depend
     on it.

   --filter, -f=filter
     Filter  what  containers  rm.   Multiple filters can be given with multiple
     uses of the --filter flag.  Filters with the same key work  inclusive  with
     the  only	exception being label which is exclusive. Filters with different
     keys always work exclusive.

     Valid filters are listed below:

     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | Filter		    | Description		    |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | id		    | [ID] Container's ID (CID pre- |
     |			    | fix match by default; accepts |
     |			    | regex)			    |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | name		    | [Name] Container's name  (ac- |
     |			    | cepts regex)		    |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | label		    | [Key]  or  [Key=Value]  Label |
     |			    | assigned to a container	    |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | label!		    | [Key]  or  [Key=Value]  Label |
     |			    | NOT assigned to a container   |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | exited		    | [Int] Container's exit code   |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | status		    | [Status]	Container's status: |
     |			    | 'created',     'initialized', |
     |			    | 'exited',   'paused',   'run- |
     |			    | ning', 'unknown'		    |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | ancestor 	    | [ImageName] Image or  descen- |
     |			    | dant used to create container |
     |			    | (accepts regex)		    |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | before		    | [ID]   or  [Name]  Containers |
     |			    | created before this container |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | since		    | [ID]  or	[Name]	 Containers |
     |			    | created since this container  |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | volume		    | [VolumeName]  or [Mountpoint- |
     |			    | Destination]  Volume  mounted |
     |			    | in container		    |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | health		    | [Status] healthy or unhealthy |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | pod		    | [Pod] name or full or partial |
     |			    | ID of pod 		    |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | network		    | [Network]  name or full ID of |
     |			    | network			    |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | restart-policy	    | [Policy] Container's  restart |
     |			    | policy (e.g., 'no', 'on-fail- |
     |			    | ure',    'always',   'unless- |
     |			    | stopped') 		    |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | until		    | [DateTime] Containers created |
     |			    | before the given duration  or |
     |			    | time.			    |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | command		    | [Command]   the  command	the |
     |			    | container is executing,  only |
     |			    | argv[0] is taken		    |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+
     | should-start-on-boot | [Bool]  Containers  that need |
     |			    | to be restarted after  system |
     |			    | reboot.  True  for containers |
     |			    | with restart policy 'always', |
     |			    | or 'unless-stopped' that were |
     |			    | not explicitly stopped by the |
     |			    | user			    |
     +----------------------+-------------------------------+

   --force, -f
     Force the removal of running and paused containers. Forcing a container re-
     moval also removes containers from container storage even if the  container
     is  not  known to Podman.	For example, containers that are created by dif-
     ferent container engines like Buildah.  In addition, forcing can be used to
     remove unusable containers, e.g. containers whose OCI  runtime  has  become
     unavailable.

   --ignore, -i
     Ignore  errors when specified containers are not in the container store.  A
     user might have decided to manually remove a container  which  leads  to  a
     failure during the ExecStop directive of a systemd service referencing that
     container.

     Further  ignore  when the specified --cidfile does not exist as it may have
     already been removed along with the container.

   --latest, -l
     Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the  last  created  con-
     tainer.  Note: the last started container can be from other users of Podman
     on  the host machine.  (This option is not available with the remote Podman
     client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)

   --time, -t=seconds
     Seconds to wait before forcibly stopping the container.  Use -1  for  infi-
     nite wait.

     The --force option must be specified to use the --time option.

   --volumes, -v
     Remove  anonymous	volumes associated with the container. This does not in-
     clude named volumes created with podman volume create, or the --volume  op-
     tion of podman run and podman create.

EXAMPLES
     Remove container with a given name:

     $ podman rm mywebserver

     Remove container with a given name and all of the containers that depend on
     it:

     $ podman rm --depend mywebserver

     Remove multiple containers with given names or IDs:

     $ podman rm mywebserver myflaskserver 860a4b23

     Remove multiple containers with IDs read from files:

     $ podman rm --cidfile ./cidfile-1 --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-2

     Forcibly remove container with a given ID:

     $ podman rm -f 860a4b23

     Remove all containers regardless of the run state:

     $ podman rm -f -a

     Forcibly  remove  the last created container. (This option is not available
     with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows  (excluding  WSL2)
     machines):

     $ podman rm -f --latest

     Remove by name:

     $ podman rm --filter name=test-alpine
     34f997d354017a0076402c3a79245a5b8bd11b597c84385bec25ae8941fd5238

     Remove by label:

     $ podman rm --filter label=app=frontend
     5a3694a13436168ea99490e74b489566c646d6a0db29868f57113298110d1b1c

     Remove by status:

     $ podman rm --filter status=exited
     4a3332649ed8bec1e0d82e113074b9a13d45582007aeac969c005992cc480a73
     f8e85f84a749b205fb602895afa6ec8a866045ff27b82f843033712c8b93a2c9
     7d17e850c9b172f11a3e20bab81da6fc694c35c2dc38d84083eb57869dcaca63
     47972eb04aa7c77705b597a929957d1e8a392e00b44c0a2a7f88a01f9f860d11

     Remove by ancestor:

     $ podman rm --filter ancestor=nginx
     8a7668cdec27664559a7da55ed5cda101f904441f7245e248218580656b2bae3
     0d297b336bf31d141c7720a791c45dafdb8b5033deaab12f29b88e5bff6b122d
     134475ac5140687d1eefff19f937dc24755f6c18e37e11d61b1084b59f1bdbe2

     Remove by volume:

     $ podman rm --filter volume=web-vol
     b3f4d4c6a67e2ef1e089efdc8ff3a47dba008eb0ff1e53ae60f59279cb43f9ba

     Remove by network:

     $ podman rm --filter network=web-net
     1c057cac90c0512df86197599eef5a9485afc900b1ade03c9739fa24c360bbda

     Remove containers ignoring errors if they don't exist :

     $ podman rm --ignore mycontainer1 mycontainer2 nonexistent-container
     mycontainer1
     mycontainer2

Exit Status
     0	 All specified containers removed

     1	 One of the specified containers did not exist, and no other failures

     2	 One of the specified containers is paused or running

     125 The command fails for any other reason

SEE ALSO
     podman(1)

HISTORY
     August   2017,   Originally   compiled   by   Ryan  Cole  rycole@redhat.com
     <mailto:rycole@redhat.com>

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