How to remove docker images based on name?

I want to delete all versions of docker images with names that contain a given string (imagename).
I have tried the below, but it doesn't seem to work:

docker images | grep 'imagename' | xargs -I {} docker rmi

Try the following:

docker rmi $(docker images | grep 'imagename')

or, alternatively:

docker rmi $(docker images 'completeimagename' -a -q)

In Windows PowerShell:

docker rmi $(docker images --format "{{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}}"|findstr "imagename")

Slightly more exact version - grepping only on the repository name:

docker rmi $(docker images --format '{{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}}' | grep 'imagename')

docker images actually uses the first positional argument as an image name to filter for. No grep's and awk's required. The -q option will return only the matching images IDs which can be fed to docker rmi.

docker rmi --force $(docker images -q 'imagename' | uniq)

The uniq is required to remove duplicates, in case you have the same image tagged differently.

docker rmi $(docker images --format '{{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}}' | grep 'imagename')

Simply you can add --force at the end of the command. Like:

sudo docker rmi <docker_image_id> --force

To make it more intelligent you can stop any running container before remove the image:

sudo docker stop $(docker ps | grep <your_container_name> | awk '{print $1}')

sudo docker rm $(docker ps | grep <your_container_name> | awk '{print $1}')

sudo docker rmi $(docker images | grep <your_image_name> | awk '{print $3}') --force

In docker ps, $1 is the 1st column i.e. docker container id and $3 is the 3rd column i.e. docker image id

I find my answer more simple.

Example, your image name is python_image.

Then your code should be:

docker rmi $(docker images --filter=reference='python_image' --format "{{.ID}}")

I hope this helps.

For me worked (Docker version 19.03.5):

docker rmi $(docker images 'imagename' -q)

The command "docker images 'imagename' -q" will list all the images id of the single quoted argument so concatenating it with docker rmi (or docker rmi -f for forcing) it will remove all images with selected name

I also got another concise answer. The only change was to remove the unnecessary -I {} flag.

docker images | grep 'imagename' | xargs docker rmi

docker rmi `docker images | awk '$1 ~ /imageName/ {print $3}'`

This will remove all the images by name "imageName". In some cases this may give an error like "image is referenced in one or more repositories". In that case use force delete.

docker rmi -f `docker images | awk '$1 ~ /imageName/ {print $3}'`

Another way can be:

docker images | awk '{ OFS = ":" }$1 ~ /imageName/ {print $1,$2}'

For some reason I wasn't able to use any of the given answers here. Here's what worked for me.

docker images | grep \"gcr.io/kubernetes-learn-197422/last-week-weather-service\" | awk '{print $3}' | xargs docker rmi

awk '{print $3}' is an important part. It extracts id from the 3rd column.

docker rmi $(docker images --filter=reference="IMAGENAME:TAG")

for example if I have the following images

REPOSITORY                    TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
abcdefg/hij                   7.0.0-beta-4.0      3128835950cd        7 days ago          51.4MB
abcdefg/hij-action            7.0.0-beta-4.0      42a7255beb74        7 days ago          97.4MB
abcdefg/hij-test              7.0.0-beta-4.0      17246aed35d0        7 days ago          97.4MB
abcdefg/hij-server            7.0.0-beta-4.0      42c45e561f2c        7 days ago          335MB
abcdefg/hij-init              7.0.0-beta-3.0      f648bb622933        7 days ago          55.2MB
abcdefg/hij-dir               7.0.0-beta-3.0      0db07d3aaccf        7 days ago          97.4MB
abcdefg/hij-mount             7.0.0-beta-3.0      18d1c0e1502c        4 weeks ago         33.7MB

Then docker rmi $(docker images --filter=reference="abcd*:*4.0") will remove the first four images.

Further information please see https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/images/

docker rmi $(docker image ls repo/image_name* | awk {'print $1":"$2'} )

Put together a solution to this question to meet my needs, that wasn't posted previously.

I wanted to match locally built images: library/myapp that I've renamed, tagged, and pushed to a private repo: myrepo.org/library/myapp. Once they are pushed, I want to clean up the local docker reg.

And I don't care if nothing is found or the command throws an error. Thus added || true at the end for inclusion into scripts.

docker rmi $(docker image ls */library/myApp --format '{{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}}') || true

Minor remark: From what we are experiencing, it seems you're - since docker 18.03 - no longer able to remove untagged images based on just the name. You either need to use the name+tag as stated above or use the ID.

docker images --format={{.ID}} | xargs -I % sh -c 'docker rmi --force % 2>&1'

Based on @Aditya's answer, you can also create a bash function to remove images at ease. Put this function to your ~/.profile. Create a new shell session or source it by source ~/.profile.

function drmi() {
    docker images | grep $1 |  xargs docker rmi
}

Usage:

drmi golang

Informational:

docker rmi $(docker images --format "{{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}}" |grep imagename |grep none)

Give this error:

> Error response from daemon: invalid reference format

Probably because my images looks like this:

hostname:5000/imagename:<none>

I had to use the image id and do this command:

docker rmi `docker images --format "{{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}} {{.ID}}" |grep imagename |grep none |cut -d ' ' -f2`

To remove exited containers:

docker container rm `docker container ls -a --format "{{.ID}} {{.Image}} {{.Status}}" |grep Exited |grep imagename|cut -d ' ' -f1`

Based on my preferred answer but with a variable instead:

docker rmi --force "$(docker images -q $repository | uniq)"

And this could be used in a Jenkins pipeline:

sh(script: 'docker rmi --force "$(docker images -q $repository | uniq)"', returnStdout: true)

I preferred this option instead of removing through the tag:

$ docker rmi test:latest

This is because, as the docs say and I verified, "using this command with the tag as a parameter only removes the tag. If the tag is the only one for the image, both the image and the tag are removed."

Try this out:

docker images | grep 'DOCKER_IMAGE_NAME' | xargs -l bash -c 'docker rmi $0:$1' | xargs

To remove image from my local I used following command it worked!!

docker rmi imagename

When I was using image name in single quote it didn't worked.

docker image ls | grep 'repository-name' |  awk '{ print $3 }'  | while read -r line ; do docker image rm $line; done