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

If John Petrone solution doesn't work, try removing those images referring explicitly the IMAGE ID you see when you run docker images. You can remove all of them with one command

for i insudo docker images | grep \ | awk '{print $3}'; do sudo docker rmi $i; done

PD: I don't know John Petrone answer. It works nicely with Docker 1.4.1