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Executing commands inside a container

From the output, we can see that the container status is UP. Now we can execute some commands inside the container using the docker exec command with different options:

$ docker exec -i 00f343906df3 ls -l /total 12drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Feb 15 04:18 bindrwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Nov 19 15:32 bootdrwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 360 Mar 6 21:17 devdrwxr-xr-x. 42 root root 4096 Mar 6 21:17 etcdrwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Nov 19 15:32 home...Output truncated for brevity...

Option -i (--interactive) allows you to run a Docker without dropping inside the container. But we can easily override this behavior and enter this container by using -i and -t (--tty) options (or just -it):

$ docker exec -it 00f343906df3 /bin/bash ...