Get docker container id from container name

Question

What is the command to get the docker container id from the container name?

Answer 1

In my case I was running Tensorflow Docker container in Ubuntu 20.04 :Run your docker container in One terminal , I ran it with

docker run -it od

And then started another terminal and ran below docker ps with sudo:

sudo docker ps

I successfully got container id:

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             
STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
e4ca1ad20b84        od                  "/bin/bash"         18 minutes ago      
Up 18 minutes                           unruffled_stonebraker