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# Overview of the Docker command line
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We try to make the Docker command line easy to use, even though you are dealing with a powerful tool and concepts that can be difficult.
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## Getting help
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In addition to this online manual, you can always ask for help from the command line itself. `docker help`, `docker --help` or `docker -h`
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will list all the commands available. If you want to get help for a more specific command you can use `--help` or `-h` at any level,
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for example `docker run --help` or `docker context create --help`.
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## Build, share, run
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Insert a really small tutorial or links here.
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## The most important commands
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- `docker run` will run a new container, from an image you or someone else has built
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- `docker ps` will show the running containers
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- `docker stop` will stop a running container
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- `docker rm` will delete a stopped container NOTE may change this so you can rm a running container, why not?
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- `docker build` builds a new container image from your source code
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- `docker compose` manages a set of containers from a single Yaml configuration file
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## Deprecated syntax
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We have made some changes to the syntax of a few commands to make them easier to understand. Where we still support the old
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forms, the command line will tell you the new form, but will still work correctly. In cases where we remove the old
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form you will get help text. If we remove a verb, for example "docker stack" we will display a message saying that the command
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is only available with the Moby backend. For example
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> docker context create my-context --description "some description" --docker "host=tcp://myserver:2376"
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This form of the command is deprecated, please use
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docker context create docker --description "some description" --host=tcp://myserver:2376
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```
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