--all, -a¶

Remove all containers. Can be used in conjunction with -f as well.

--cidfile=file¶

Read container ID from the specified file and rm the container. Can be specified multiple times.

Command does not fail when file is missing and user specified --ignore.

--depend¶

Remove selected container and recursively remove all containers that depend on it.

--filter=filter¶

Filter what containers remove. Multiple filters can be given with multiple uses of the --filter flag. Filters with the same key work inclusive with the only exception being label which is exclusive. Filters with different keys always work exclusive.

Valid filters are listed below:

--force, -f¶

Force the removal of running and paused containers. Forcing a container removal also removes containers from container storage even if the container is not known to Podman. For example, containers that are created by different container engines like Buildah. In addition, forcing can be used to remove unusable containers, e.g. containers whose OCI runtime has become unavailable.

--ignore, -i¶

Ignore errors when specified containers are not in the container store. A user might have decided to manually remove a container which leads to a failure during the ExecStop directive of a systemd service referencing that container.

Further ignore when the specified --cidfile does not exist as it may have already been removed along with the container.

--latest, -l¶

Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the last created container. Note: the last started container can be from other users of Podman on the host machine. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)

--time, -t=seconds¶

Seconds to wait before forcibly stopping the container. Use -1 for infinite wait.

The --force option must be specified to use the --time option.

--volumes, -v¶

Remove anonymous volumes associated with the container. This does not include named volumes created with podman volume create, or the --volume option of podman run and podman create.