How to clear the logs properly for a Docker container?

Question

I use docker logs [container-name] to see the logs of a specific container.

Is there an elegant way to clear these logs?

Answer 1

On my Ubuntu servers even as sudo I would get Cannot open ‘/var/lib/docker/containers/*/*-json.log’ for writing: No such file or directory

But combing the docker inspect and truncate answers worked :

sudo truncate -s 0 `docker inspect --format='{{.LogPath}}' `