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Daniel J Walsh 32c2cea0f9 Remove future tense from man pages
Remove all will, would, could, should and use present tense.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
2023-05-16 15:10:33 -04:00

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####> This option file is used in: ####> podman create, run ####> If file is edited, make sure the changes ####> are applicable to all of those.

--name=name

Assign a name to the container.

The operator can identify a container in three ways:

  • UUID long identifier (“f78375b1c487e03c9438c729345e54db9d20cfa2ac1fc3494b6eb60872e74778”);
  • UUID short identifier (“f78375b1c487”);
  • Name (“jonah”).

Podman generates a UUID for each container, and if a name is not assigned to the container with --name then it generates a random string name. The name can be useful as a more human-friendly way to identify containers. This works for both background and foreground containers.