Stop and remove docker container with force ignore

Question

How can I delete a docker container with force ignore that means if there is no running docker container it should do nothing and if there is a running docker container with the name then it should stop and remove that container.

I am executing the following code to stop and remove the container.

docker rm -f CONTAINER_NAME || true

If there is a running container then everything works fine, however, if there is no container then the following error is thrown:

Error: No such container: CONTAINER_NAME

Is there something like --force ignore? I need this behaviour in order to include it in an automated Makefile.

Answer 1

try this exit code will be 1:

docker rm -f CONTAINER_NAME 2> /dev/null

this with exit code 0:

docker rm -f CONTAINER_NAME 2> /dev/null || true