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Docker show container run arguments

Christopher Simpson -

Sometimes you want to see exactly how a container was started, and what command line arguments were passed to , and subsequently how they were interpreted by the container runtime engine.

Emmanuel Frécon provides an excellent example of how to do exactly that:

docker inspect \
  --format "$(curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/efrecon/8ce9c75d518b6eb863f667442d7bc679/raw/run.tpl)" \
  name_or_id_of_your_running_container
source

What the above does is take the Go template from Github Gist and formats the docker inspect output to include the information relevant to the docker run command.