podman-unpause(1) General Commands Manual podman-unpause(1)
NAME
podman-unpause - Unpause one or more containers
SYNOPSIS
podman unpause [options]|[container ...]
podman container unpause [options]|[container ...]
DESCRIPTION
Unpauses the processes in one or more containers. Container IDs or
names can be used as input.
OPTIONS
--all, -a
Unpause all paused containers.
--cidfile=file
Read container ID from the specified file and unpause the container.
Can be specified multiple times.
--filter, -f=filter
Filter what containers unpause. Multiple filters can be given with mul-
tiple uses of the --filter flag. Filters with the same key work inclu-
sive with the only exception being label which is exclusive. Filters
with different keys always work exclusive.
Valid filters are listed below:
┌──────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│ Filter │ Description │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ id │ [ID] Container's ID (CID pre- │
│ │ fix match by default; accepts │
│ │ regex) │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ name │ [Name] Container's name (ac- │
│ │ cepts regex) │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ label │ [Key] or [Key=Value] Label │
│ │ assigned to a container │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ exited │ [Int] Container's exit code │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ status │ [Status] Container's status: │
│ │ 'created', 'initialized', │
│ │ 'exited', 'paused', 'run- │
│ │ ning', 'unknown' │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ ancestor │ [ImageName] Image or descen- │
│ │ dant used to create container │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ before │ [ID] or [Name] Containers │
│ │ created before this container │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ since │ [ID] or [Name] Containers │
│ │ created since this container │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ volume │ [VolumeName] or [Mountpoint- │
│ │ Destination] Volume mounted │
│ │ in container │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ health │ [Status] healthy or unhealthy │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ pod │ [Pod] name or full or partial │
│ │ ID of pod │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ network │ [Network] name or full ID of │
│ │ network │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ until │ [DateTime] Containers created │
│ │ before the given duration or │
│ │ time. │
└──────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
--latest, -l
Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the last created con-
tainer. Note: the last started container can be from other users of
Podman on the host machine. (This option is not available with the re-
mote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)
EXAMPLE
Unpause specified container:
podman unpause mywebserver
Unpause container by a partial container ID:
podman unpause 860a4b23
Unpause all paused containers:
podman unpause --all
Unpause container using ID specified in given files:
podman unpause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1
podman unpause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2
Unpause the latest container. (This option is not available with the re-
mote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) ma-
chines):
podman unpause --latest
SEE ALSO
podman(1), podman-pause(1)
HISTORY
September 2017, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com
⟨mailto:dwalsh@redhat.com⟩
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