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LXC-LS(1)                                                          LXC-LS(1)

NAME         top

       lxc-ls - list the containers existing on the system

SYNOPSIS         top

       lxc-ls [ -1 ]  [ --active ]  [ --frozen ]  [ --running ]  [ --stopped
       ]  [ --defined ]  [ -f ]  [ -F format ]  [ -g groups ]  [
       --nesting=NUM ]  [ --filter=regex ]

DESCRIPTION         top

       lxc-ls list the containers existing on the system.

OPTIONS         top

       -1     Show one entry per line. (default when /dev/stdout isn't a
              tty)
       --active
              List only active containers (same as --frozen --running).
       --frozen
              List only frozen containers.
       --running
              List only running containers.
       --stopped
              List only stopped containers.
       --defined
              List only defined containers.
       -f,--fancy
              Use a fancy, column-based output.
       -F,--fancy-format format
              Comma separated list of columns to show in the fancy output.
              The list of accepted and default fields is listed in --help.
       -g,--groups groups
              Comma separated list of groups the container must have to be
              displayed.  The parameter may be passed multiple times.
       --nesting=NUM
              Show nested containers. The number of nesting levels to be
              shown can be specified by passing a number as argument.
       --filter=regex
              The regular expression passed to lxc-ls will be applied to the
              container name. The format is a POSIX extended regular
              expression. It can also be given as additional argument
              without explicitly using --filter.

EXAMPLES         top

       lxc-ls --fancy
              list all the containers, listing one per line along with its
              name, state, ipv4 and ipv6 addresses.
       lxc-ls --active -1
              list active containers and display the list in one column.

COMMON OPTIONS         top

       These options are common to most of lxc commands.
       -?, -h, --help
              Print a longer usage message than normal.
       --usage
              Give the usage message
       -q, --quiet
              mute on
       -P, --lxcpath=PATH
              Use an alternate container path. The default is
              /usr/local/var/lib/lxc.
       -o, --logfile=FILE
              Output to an alternate log FILE. The default is no log.
       -l, --logpriority=LEVEL
              Set log priority to LEVEL. The default log priority is ERROR.
              Possible values are : FATAL, CRIT, WARN, ERROR, NOTICE, INFO,
              DEBUG.
              Note that this option is setting the priority of the events
              log in the alternate log file. It do not have effect on the
              ERROR events log on stderr.
       -n, --name=NAME
              Use container identifier NAME.  The container identifier
              format is an alphanumeric string.
       --rcfile=FILE
              Specify the configuration file to configure the virtualization
              and isolation functionalities for the container.
              This configuration file if present will be used even if there
              is already a configuration file present in the previously
              created container (via lxc-create).
       --version
              Show the version number.

SEE ALSO         top

       lxc(7), lxc-create(1), lxc-copy(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-start(1),
       lxc-stop(1), lxc-execute(1), lxc-console(1), lxc-monitor(1),
       lxc-wait(1), lxc-cgroup(1), lxc-ls(1), lxc-info(1), lxc-freeze(1),
       lxc-unfreeze(1), lxc-attach(1), lxc.conf(5)

HISTORY         top

       Written originally as a shell script by Daniel Lezcano and Serge
       Hallyn.  Later reimplemented and extended in Python by Stéphane
       Graber and then reimplemented and extended in C by Christian Brauner.

AUTHOR         top

       Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@mailbox.org>, Stéphane Graber
       <stgraber@ubuntu.com>

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the lxc (Linux containers) project.  Information
       about the project can be found at ⟨http://linuxcontainers.org/⟩.  If
       you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
       lxc-devel@lists.linuxcontainers.org.  This page was obtained from the
       project's upstream Git repository ⟨git://github.com/lxc/lxc⟩ on
       2017-07-05.  If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML ver‐
       sion of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date
       source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the
       information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original man‐
       ual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org
                                 2017-07-05                        LXC-LS(1)

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