Get the names of containers in Docker

Question

I named my containers in Docker, but now I forgot the names...

How can I list all of the used names?

docker -ps just gives me the running containers and docker images gives me all the images but no names.

I just want a list where I can see how I named the different containers when I created them.

Answer 1

As mentioned by @nwinkler, you use docker ps -a to list all of your containers even stopped ones.

Now, you can also use Format in combination to docker ps -a as a convenient way to print only part of the information that is relevant to you.

For example you can list your container IDs with their associated names with:

$ docker ps -a --format "{{.ID}}: {{.Name}}"
caee09882462: peaceful_saha

You can also use the regular table format with the column titles:

$ docker ps -a --format "table {{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}"

CONTAINER ID        NAMES
caee09882462        peaceful_saha

If you only want a list of all the used names:

$ docker ps -a --format "{{.Names}}"
peaceful_saha

Answer 2

You can run docker ps -a to show all running and stopped containers.

The container ID will be in the first column of the output, and the name will be in the last column.

Example:

$ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                    COMMAND                  CREATED       STATUS                    PORTS                                                     NAMES
6b74154d7133  wnameless/oracle-xe-11g  "/bin/sh -c '/usr/sbi"   9 months ago  Exited (0) 13 days ago    8080/tcp, 0.0.0.0:49160->22/tcp, 0.0.0.0:49161->1521/tcp  oracle_xe