[FIXED] How can I delete all local Docker images?

Issue

I recently started using Docker and never realized that I should use docker-compose down instead of ctrl-c or docker-compose stop to get rid of my experiments. I now have a large number of unneeded docker images locally.

Is there a flag I can run to delete all the local docker images & containers?

Something like docker rmi --all --force --all flag does not exist but I am looking for something with similar idea.

Solution

Unix

To delete all containers including its volumes use,

docker rm -vf $(docker ps -aq)

To delete all the images,

docker rmi -f $(docker images -aq)

Remember, you should remove all the containers before removing all the images from which those containers were created.

Windows - Powershell

docker images -a -q | % { docker image rm $_ -f }

Windows - Command Line

for /F %i in ('docker images -a -q') do docker rmi -f %i

Answered By - techtabu

Answer Checked By - Timothy Miller (PHPFixing Admin)