Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

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• In the preceding recipe, we removed the tags one by one till all the tags were removed and the image was deleted. Perhaps you could use the -f or --force option of the docker image rm to delete all the tags and images in one stroke.
• Before using the --force option, ensure that the image doesn't have any containers spawned from that image. Otherwise, you will end up having dangling images.
• Though it is not recommended, if for any reason you want to remove all containers and images, then you can use the following commands:
• To stop all containers, use the following command:

        $ docker container stop $(docker container ls -q) 

• To delete all containers, use the following command:

        $ docker container rm $(docker container ls ...