podman-container-prune(1)

okay so bestie 💖, welcome to podman-container-prune(1) — straight outta the General Commands Manual — aka the page for podman-container-prune, the command that removes all stopped containers from local storage. The way this page is giving “cleanup era” is so real. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

podman-container-prune — Remove all stopped containers from local storage.

No cap, that’s the whole name. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

podman container prune [options]

That’s the whole summoning ritual, bestie. 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

podman container prune removes all stopped containers from local storage.

If it’s stopped, it’s getting swept. Periodt. 🧹✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --filter=filters — Provide filter values.

If there is more than one filter, the --filter option should be passed multiple times: --filter label=test --filter until=10m.

Supported filters:

• annotation — Only remove containers with (or without, when annotation!=[...] is used) the specified annotations.
• label — Only remove containers with (or without, when label!=[...] is used) the specified labels.
• until — Only remove containers created before the given timestamp.

The label filter accepts two formats. One is the label=key or label=key=value, which removes containers with the specified labels. The other format is the label!=key or label!=key=value, which removes containers without the specified labels. The annotation and annotation! filters work the same way for container annotations.

NOTE 💀: label! filters are combined with AND, so that the behavior is consistent with label, while in Docker, they are combined with OR.

The until filter can be Unix timestamps, date formatted timestamps, or Go duration strings (e.g. 10m, 1h30m) computed relative to the machine’s time.

• --force, -f — Do not provide an interactive prompt for container removal. The default is false.
• -h, --help — Print usage statement. The default is false.

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

Remove all stopped containers from local storage:

$ podman container prune
WARNING! This will remove all stopped containers.
Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
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Remove all stopped containers from local storage without confirmation:

$ podman container prune -f
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Remove all stopped containers from local storage created before the last 10 minutes:

$ podman container prune --filter until="10m"
WARNING! This will remove all stopped containers.
Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

podman(1), podman-ps(1)

🦋 HISTORY 🦋

• December 2018, Originally compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩
• December 2020, converted filter information from docs.docker.com documentation by Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com ⟨mailto:dwalsh@redhat.com⟩

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