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podman-rmi(1) | General Commands Manual | podman-rmi(1) |
NAME¶
podman-rmi - Removes one or more locally stored images
SYNOPSIS¶
podman rmi [options] image [...]
podman image rm [options] image [...]
DESCRIPTION¶
Removes one or more locally stored images. Passing an argument image deletes it, along with any of its dangling parent images. A dangling image is an image without a tag and without being referenced by another image.
Note: To delete an image from a remote registry, use the skopeo delete command. Some registries do not allow users to delete an image via a CLI remotely.
OPTIONS¶
--all, -a¶
Remove all images in the local storage.
--force, -f¶
This option will cause podman to remove all containers that are using the image before removing the image from the system.
--ignore, -i¶
If a specified image does not exist in the local storage, ignore it and do not throw an error.
--no-prune¶
This options will not remove dangling parents of specified image
Remove an image by its short ID
$ podman rmi c0ed59d05ff7
Remove an image and its associated containers.
$ podman rmi --force imageID
Remove multiple images by their shortened IDs.
$ podman rmi c4dfb1609ee2 93fd78260bd1 c0ed59d05ff7
Remove all images and containers.
$ podman rmi -a -f
Remove an absent image with and without the --ignore flag.
$ podman rmi --ignore nothing $ podman rmi nothing Error: nothing: image not known
Exit Status¶
0 All specified images removed
1 One of the specified images did not exist, and no other failures
2 One of the specified images has child images or is being used by a container
125 The command fails for any other reason
SEE ALSO¶
podman(1), skopeo-delete(1)
HISTORY¶
March 2017, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com ⟨mailto:dwalsh@redhat.com⟩