# buildah-images "1" "March 2017" "buildah"
## NAME
buildah\-images - List images in local storage.
## SYNOPSIS
**buildah images** [*options*] [*image*]
## DESCRIPTION
Displays locally stored images, their names, sizes, created date and their IDs.
The created date is displayed in the time locale of the local machine.
## OPTIONS
**--all**, **-a**
Show all images, including intermediate images from a build.
**--digests**
Show the image digests.
**--filter**, **-f**=[]
Filter output based on conditions provided (default []).
Filters:
**after,since=image**
Filter on images created since the given image.
**before=image**
Filter on images created before the given image.
**dangling=true|false**
Show dangling images. An images is considered to be dangling if it has no associated names and tags.
**id=id**
Show image with this specific ID.
**intermediate=true|false**
Show intermediate images. An images is considered to be an indermediate image if it is dangling and has no children.
**label=key[=value]**
Filter by images labels key and/or value.
**readonly=true|false**
Show only read only images or Read/Write images. The default is to show both. Read/Only images can be configured by modifying the "additionalimagestores" in the /etc/containers/storage.conf file.
**reference=reference**
Show images matching the specified reference. Wildcards are supported (e.g., "reference=*fedora:3*").
**--format**="TEMPLATE"
Pretty-print images using a Go template.
Valid placeholders for the Go template are listed below:
| **Placeholder** | **Description** |
| --------------- | -----------------------------------------|
| .Created | Creation date in epoch time |
| .CreatedAt | Creation date Pretty Formatted |
| .CreatedAtRaw | Creation date in raw format |
| .Digest | Image Digest |
| .ID | Image ID |
| .Name | Image Name |
| .ReadOnly | Indicates if image came from a R/O store |
| .Size | Image Size |
| .Tag | Image Tag |
**--history**
Display the image name history.
**--json**
Display the output in JSON format.
**--no-trunc**
Do not truncate output.
**--noheading**, **-n**
Omit the table headings from the listing of images.
**--quiet**, **-q**
Displays only the image IDs.
## EXAMPLE
buildah images
buildah images fedora:latest
buildah images --json
buildah images --quiet
buildah images -q --noheading --no-trunc
buildah images --quiet fedora:latest
buildah images --filter dangling=true
buildah images --format "ImageID: {{.ID}}"
```
$ buildah images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8 latest 53ce4390f2ad 3 weeks ago 233 MB
docker.io/library/busybox latest 16ea53ea7c65 3 weeks ago 1.46 MB
quay.io/libpod/testimage 20210610 9f9ec7f2fdef 4 months ago 7.99 MB
```
```
# buildah images -a
IMAGE NAME IMAGE TAG IMAGE ID CREATED AT SIZE
registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8 latest 53ce4390f2ad 3 weeks ago 233 MB
<none> <none> 8c6e16890c2b Jun 13, 2018 15:52 4.42 MB
localhost/test latest c0cfe75da054 Jun 13, 2018 15:52 4.42 MB
```
```
# buildah images --format '{{.ID}} {{.CreatedAtRaw}}'
3f53bb00af943dfdf815650be70c0fa7b426e56a66f5e3362b47a129d57d5991 2018-12-20 19:21:30.122610396 -0500 EST
8e09da8f6701d7cde1526d79e3123b0f1109b78d925dfe9f9bac6d59d702a390 2019-01-08 09:22:52.330623532 -0500 EST
```
```
# buildah images --format '{{.ID}} {{.Name}} {{.Digest}} {{.CreatedAt}} {{.Size}} {{.CreatedAtRaw}}'
3f53bb00af943dfdf815650be70c0fa7b426e56a66f5e3362b47a129d57d5991 docker.io/library/alpine sha256:3d2e482b82608d153a374df3357c0291589a61cc194ec4a9ca2381073a17f58e Dec 20, 2018 19:21 4.67 MB 2018-12-20 19:21:30.122610396 -0500 EST
8e09da8f6701d7cde1526d79e3123b0f1109b78d925dfe9f9bac6d59d702a390 <none> sha256:894532ec56e0205ce68ca7230b00c18aa3c8ee39fcdb310615c60e813057229c Jan 8, 2019 09:22 4.67 MB 2019-01-08 09:22:52.330623532 -0500 EST
```
## SEE ALSO
buildah(1), containers-storage.conf(5)
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