Cleaning Up Old/Unused/All Docker Containers/Images

cleanup-docker.sh

# removing old containers
# linux
docker ps -a | grep 'weeks ago' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker rm
# macosx
docker ps -a | grep 'weeks ago' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -L 10 docker rm

# removing all stopped containers
# linux
docker ps -a | grep 'Exit' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker rm
# macosx
docker ps -a | grep 'Exit' | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -L 10 docker rm

# removing orphan tagless/nameless images
# won't remove any image other images depend on
# will show Error response from daemon: Conflict, wasn't deleted
# linux
docker images -a | grep '^<none>' | awk '{print $3}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker rmi
# macosx
docker images -a | grep '^<none>' | awk '{print $3}' | xargs -L 10 docker rmi

# removing tagged/named images and ALL its children
# BE CAREFUL!!!
# linux
docker images -a | grep -v "^<" | awk '{print $3}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker rmi
# macosx
docker images -a | grep -v "^<" | awk '{print $3}' | xargs -L 10 docker rmi

you want ps -a rather than -aq, otherwise grep has nothing to match, but this was still helpful, thanks

Thanks for the tip. =) I'm glad it helped you