how to physically remove untagged docker images

Question

when I run a command such as sudo docker rmi me/myimage I get the responce ...image untagged, but, when I rerun sudo docker images I can see that this \"untagged\" image i

Answer 1

First you need to remove exited containers, then remove dangling images.

docker rm $(docker ps -q -f status=exited)
docker rmi $(docker images -q -f dangling=true)

After all, I created the below script as ~/bin/dclean and have been using it.

#!/bin/sh

processes=$(docker ps -q -f status=exited)
if [ -n "$processes" ]; then
  docker rm $processes
fi

images=$(docker images -q -f dangling=true)
if [ -n "$images" ]; then
  docker rmi $images
fi