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Start a stopped docker container in bash/shell interactive mode
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Start a stopped docker container in bash/shell interactive mode

For instance, you have just pulled a CentOS or Ubuntu image using docker pull centos:latest or docker pull ubuntu:latest.

Your immediate command would be

# docker run -it centos:latest
# docker ps -a

Please note that -it is very important for /bin/bash to run and then exit.

And you will see that your docker container stopped. You will want to start the container and get into a bash prompt.

You'll need to get the container ID or name using the following command

# docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS                       PORTS               NAMES
fc9776797af5        centos:latest       "/bin/bash"         8 minutes ago       Exited (127) 4 seconds ago                       stoic_ramanujan

And then run the following command to get an interactive bash shell in your container

# docker start -ai stoic_ramanujan
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aahnik commented Apr 1, 2021

wow, thanks. I was struggling with this. your notes really helped.

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