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Docker Exec Command

In this article, we will discuss the docker exec command.

Purpose

The docker exec command executes the command in the running container.

Before you start reading this article, make sure that Docker is installed on your machine.

In this example, we will create an image and a container. Once the container is created, we will execute the following command: -

docker exec -it c1 sh

In the above code, c1 is the name of the container.

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