Filter and Remove Docker Images, Containers

For quick and selective removal of Docker containers and images, standard commands are not always sufficient:

• docker system prune: Removes all unused resources not associated with containers.
• docker system prune -a: Removes all stopped containers and unused resources.
• docker images purge: Removes images not tied to containers.
• docker rmi $(docker images -a -q): Removes all images.
• docker rm $(docker ps -a -f status=exited -q): Removes all stopped containers.
• docker volume prune: Removes unused volumes.

For more selective image or container removal, you can use combinations of grep and awk for fine-grained control.

Removing Images

docker images -a | grep "repo/app:1.0" | awk '{print $3}' | xargs docker rmi