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podman-quadlet-rm(1)

podman-quadlet-rm - Removes an installed quadlet

podman-quadlet-rm(1) General Commands Manual podman-quadlet-rm(1)

podman-quadlet-rm - Removes an installed quadlet

podman quadlet rm [options] quadlet|application [quadlet|application]...

Remove one or more installed Quadlets from the current user. Following command also takes application name as input and removes all the Quadlets which belongs to that specific application.

Note: If a quadlet is part of an application, removing that specific quadlet will remove the entire application. When a quadlet is installed from a directory, all files installed from that directory—including both quadlet and non-quadlet files—are considered part of a single application.

--all, -a

Remove all Quadlets for the current user.

--force, -f

Remove running Quadlets.

--ignore, -i

Do not error for Quadlets that do not exist.

--recursive

Required when removing applications (default false).

--reload-systemd

Reload systemd after removing Quadlets (default true). In order to disable it users need to manually set the value of this flag to false.

$ podman quadlet rm myquadlet.container
myquadlet.container
$ podman quadlet rm --recursive myapp
web.container
data.container
data.volume

podman(1), podman-quadlet(1), podman-systemd.unit(5)

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