How to show the run command of a docker container

Question

I use a third party GUI (Synology Docker package) to setup a docker container. However, it\'s limitation makes me need to run the container from the command line. (I want to

Answer 1

So how to reverse engineering docker run command?

There is a github repository which try to reverse engineering docker run command, but it is not perfect currently, version is 0.1.2. You should follow it for updating. Maybe one day you can use it to get correct run command with it.

$ sudo pip install runlike

# run the ubuntu image
$ docker run -ti ubuntu bash

$ docker ps -a  
# suppose you get the container ID 1dfff2ba0226

# Run runlike to get the docker run command. 
$ runlike 1dfff2ba0226
docker run --name=elated_cray -t ubuntu bash

Github repository: runlike

Updates：

Run without installing (Thanks @tilo)

docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    assaflavie/runlike YOUR-CONTAINER

or set alias

alias runlike="docker run --rm -v/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock 
 assaflavie/runlike"

runlike YOUR-CONTAINER