List only stopped Docker containers
Only stopped containers can be listed using:
docker ps --filter "status=exited"
or
docker ps -f "status=exited"
The typical command is:
docker container ls -f 'status=exited'
However, this will only list one of the possible non-running statuses. Here's a list of all possible statuses:
- created
- restarting
- running
- removing
- paused
- exited
- dead
You can filter on multiple statuses by passing multiple filters on the status:
docker container ls -f 'status=exited' -f 'status=dead' -f 'status=created'
If you are integrating this with an automatic cleanup script, you can chain one command to another with some bash syntax, output just the container id's with -q, and you can also limit to just the containers that exited successfully with an exit code filter:
docker container rm $(docker container ls -q -f 'status=exited' -f 'exited=0')
For more details on filters you can use, see Docker's documentation: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/ps/#filtering