Remove all stopped containers: “docker rm” requires at least 1 argument

Question

I\'m reading a book on docker. It is a couple of years old.

I\'ll cite:

If you want to get rid of all your stopped containers, you can use
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Answer 1

What seems to be happening is docker was started with different user. Hence, docker ps -aq -f status=exited could not be run due permission issue and as a result got blank result.

Running docker rm complains of missing argument due to blank result.

michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo docker rm -v $(docker ps -aq -f status=exited)
Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: