How to get the list of dependent child images in Docker?

Question

I\'m trying to remove an image and I get:

# docker rmi f50f9524513f  
Failed to remove image (f50f9524513f): Error response from daemon: conflict: unable to          


        

Answer 1

How about:

ID=$(docker inspect --format="{{.Id}}" "$1")
IMAGES=$(docker inspect --format="{{if eq \"$ID\" .Config.Image}}{{.Id}}{{end}}" $(docker images --filter since="$ID" -q))
echo $(printf "%s\n" "${IMAGES[@]}" | sort -u)

It'll print the child image id's, with the sha256: prefix.
I also had the following, which appends the names:

IMAGES=$(docker inspect --format="{{if eq \"$ID\" .Config.Image}}{{.Id}}{{.RepoTags}}{{end}}" $(docker images --filter since="$ID" -q))

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• ID= Gets the full id of the image
• IMAGES= Gets all child images that have this image listed as an Image
• echo... Removes duplicates and echos the results