podman-rmi(1) General Commands Manual podman-rmi(1)
NAME
podman-rmi - Remove 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 causes 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 option does not remove dangling parents of the 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⟩
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