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## NAME
podman\-rm - Remove one or more containers

## SYNOPSIS
**podman rm** [*options*] *container*

**podman container rm** [*options*] *container*

## DESCRIPTION
**podman rm** removes one or more containers from the host.  The container name or ID can be used.  This does not remove images.
Running or unusable containers are not removed without the **-f** option.

## OPTIONS

#### **--all**, **-a**

Remove all containers.  Can be used in conjunction with **-f** as well.

@@option cidfile.read

Command does not fail when *file* is missing and user specified --ignore.

#### **--depend**

Remove selected container and recursively remove all containers that depend on it.

#### **--filter**=*filter*

Filter what containers remove.
Multiple filters can be given with multiple uses of the --filter flag.
Filters with the same key work inclusive with the only exception being
`label` which is exclusive. Filters with different keys always work exclusive.

Valid filters are listed below:

| **Filter** | **Description**                                                                                 |
|------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| id         | [ID] Container's ID (CID prefix match by default; accepts regex)                                |
| name       | [Name] Container's name (accepts regex)                                                         |
| label      | [Key] or [Key=Value] Label assigned to a container                                              |
| exited     | [Int] Container's exit code                                                                     |
| status     | [Status] Container's status: 'created', 'initialized', 'exited', 'paused', 'running', 'unknown' |
| ancestor   | [ImageName] Image or descendant used to create container                                        |
| before     | [ID] or [Name] Containers created before this container                                         |
| since      | [ID] or [Name] Containers created since this container                                          |
| volume     | [VolumeName] or [MountpointDestination] Volume mounted in container                             |
| health     | [Status] healthy or unhealthy                                                                   |
| pod        | [Pod] name or full or partial ID of pod                                                         |
| network    | [Network] name or full ID of network                                                            |
| until      | [DateTime] Containers created before the given duration or time.                                |
| command    | [Command] the command the container is executing, only argv[0] is taken  |

#### **--force**, **-f**

Force the removal of running and paused containers. Forcing a container removal also
removes containers from container storage even if the container is not known to Podman.
For example, containers that are created by different container engines like Buildah.
In addition, forcing can be used to remove unusable containers, e.g. containers
whose OCI runtime has become unavailable.

@@option ignore
Further ignore when the specified `--cidfile` does not exist as it may have
already been removed along with the container.

@@option latest

@@option time

The --force option must be specified to use the --time option.

#### **--volumes**, **-v**

Remove anonymous volumes associated with the container. This does not include named volumes
created with **podman volume create**, or the **--volume** option of **podman run** and **podman create**.

## EXAMPLES
Remove container with a given name:
```
$ podman rm mywebserver
```

Remove container with a given name and all of the containers that depend on it:
```
$ podman rm --depend mywebserver
```

Remove multiple containers with given names or IDs:
```
$ podman rm mywebserver myflaskserver 860a4b23
```

Remove multiple containers with IDs read from files:
```
$ podman rm --cidfile ./cidfile-1 --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-2
```

Forcibly remove container with a given ID:
```
$ podman rm -f 860a4b23
```

Remove all containers regardless of the run state:
```
$ podman rm -f -a
```

Forcibly remove the last created container. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines):
```
$ podman rm -f --latest
```

Remove by name:
```
$ podman rm --filter name=test-alpine
34f997d354017a0076402c3a79245a5b8bd11b597c84385bec25ae8941fd5238
```

Remove by label:
```
$ podman rm --filter label=app=frontend
5a3694a13436168ea99490e74b489566c646d6a0db29868f57113298110d1b1c
```

Remove by status:
```
$ podman rm --filter status=exited
4a3332649ed8bec1e0d82e113074b9a13d45582007aeac969c005992cc480a73
f8e85f84a749b205fb602895afa6ec8a866045ff27b82f843033712c8b93a2c9
7d17e850c9b172f11a3e20bab81da6fc694c35c2dc38d84083eb57869dcaca63
47972eb04aa7c77705b597a929957d1e8a392e00b44c0a2a7f88a01f9f860d11
```

Remove by ancestor:
```
$ podman rm --filter ancestor=nginx
8a7668cdec27664559a7da55ed5cda101f904441f7245e248218580656b2bae3
0d297b336bf31d141c7720a791c45dafdb8b5033deaab12f29b88e5bff6b122d
134475ac5140687d1eefff19f937dc24755f6c18e37e11d61b1084b59f1bdbe2
```

Remove by volume:
```
$ podman rm --filter volume=web-vol
b3f4d4c6a67e2ef1e089efdc8ff3a47dba008eb0ff1e53ae60f59279cb43f9ba
```

Remove by network:
```
$ podman rm --filter network=web-net
1c057cac90c0512df86197599eef5a9485afc900b1ade03c9739fa24c360bbda
```

Remove containers ignoring errors if they don't exist :
```
$ podman rm --ignore mycontainer1 mycontainer2 nonexistent-container
mycontainer1
mycontainer2
```


## Exit Status
  **0**   All specified containers removed

  **1**   One of the specified containers did not exist, and no other failures

  **2**   One of the specified containers is paused or running

  **125** The command fails for any other reason

## SEE ALSO
**[podman(1)](podman.1.md)**

## HISTORY
August 2017, Originally compiled by Ryan Cole <rycole@redhat.com>