podman-rmi(1) General Commands Manual podman-rmi(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

podman-rmi - Remove one or more locally stored images

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**podman rmi** \[*options*] *image* \[...]

**podman image rm** \[*options*] *image* \[...]

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Removes one or more locally stored images. Passing an argument *image* deletes it, along with any of its dangling parent images. A dangling image is an image without a tag and without being referenced by another image.

Note: To delete an image from a remote registry, use the **skopeo delete** command. Some registries do not allow users to delete an image via a CLI remotely.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

## **--all**, **-a**

Remove all images in the local storage.

## **--force**, **-f**

This option causes Podman to remove all containers that are using the image before removing the image from the system.

## **--ignore**, **-i**

If a specified image does not exist in the local storage, ignore it and do not throw an error.

## **--no-prune**

This option does not remove dangling parents of the specified image.

# [EXAMPLES](#EXAMPLES)

Remove an image by its short ID

```
$ podman rmi c0ed59d05ff7
```

Remove an image and its associated containers.

```
$ podman rmi --force imageID
```

Remove multiple images by their shortened IDs.

```
$ podman rmi c4dfb1609ee2 93fd78260bd1 c0ed59d05ff7
```

Remove all images and containers.

```
$ podman rmi -a -f
```

Remove an absent image with and without the **--ignore** flag.

```
$ podman rmi --ignore nothing
$ podman rmi nothing
Error: nothing: image not known
```

Remove an image but keep any parents of it.

```
podman rmi --no-prune d29200bf974d
Deleted: d29200bf974dbc48dc66c23c4031548531b6b5943e5f25ee7bda232e3b6b27f4
```

# [Exit Status](#Exit_Status)

**0** All specified images removed

**1** One of the specified images did not exist, and no other failures

**2** One of the specified images has child images or is being used by a container

**125** The command fails for any other reason

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**podman(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-doc-6.0/podman.1), [**skopeo-delete(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-doc-6.0/skopeo-delete.1)

# [HISTORY](#HISTORY)

March 2017, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com ⟨mailto:dwalsh@redhat.com⟩

---

Document: podman-rmi(1) from podman-doc-6.0 6.0.2-r13 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/containers/podman