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(https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/docker) (show questions tagged 'docker') docker  (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sorting) (show questions tagged 'sorting') sorting      (https://stackoverflow.com/q/46173298) (Short permalink to this question) Share   (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/46173298/edit) Improve this question  Follow  Follow this question to receive notifications      (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/46173298/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2025-07-08 23:41:13Z) Jul 8 at 23:41    (https://stackoverflow.com/users/16217248/cplus) (CPlus's user avatar)    (https://stackoverflow.com/users/16217248/cplus) CPlus (reputation score) 5,103 (48 gold badges)  48  48 gold badges (33 silver badges)  33  33 silver badges (76 bronze badges)  76  76 bronze badges     asked (2017-09-12 09:54:12Z) Sep 12, 2017 at 9:54   (https://stackoverflow.com/users/8247069/theo) (Theo's user avatar)    (https://stackoverflow.com/users/8247069/theo) Theo Theo (reputation score) 2,970 (5 gold badges)  5  5 gold badges (28 silver badges)  28  28 silver badges (59 bronze badges)  59  59 bronze badges        5 (number of 'useful comment' votes received) 2   if you pipe and sort it? or have a look at Andy'answer from Docker Inspect Template Magic from Adrian Mouat (http://container-solutions.com/docker-inspect-template-magic/) container-solutions.com/docker-inspect-template-magic I guess you look for a docker only solution user2915097 – (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2915097/user2915097) (32,384 reputation) user2915097  2017-09-12 10:41:21 +00:00 Commented (2017-09-12 10:41:21Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Sep 12, 2017 at 10:41        I don't think you can do anything golang template specific to do this. You need to build your own stuff for this. What may work is hitting the API and using jq to sort results and display. But not sure how easy that would be Tarun Lalwani – (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2830850/tarun-lalwani) (147,168 reputation) Tarun Lalwani  2017-09-12 11:38:08 +00:00 Commented (2017-09-12 11:38:08Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Sep 12, 2017 at 11:38        from (http://webgeodatavore.com/jq-json-manipulation-command-line-with-geojson.html) webgeodatavore.com/… I see Sort only value, not the object (return array) and jq '[.features[].properties.pop_est] | sort' countries.geojson so I guess this is possible with jq (I do not have a docke ravailable at the moment, I will test later) user2915097 – (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2915097/user2915097) (32,384 reputation) user2915097  2017-09-12 11:48:12 +00:00 Commented (2017-09-12 11:48:12Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Sep 12, 2017 at 11:48        and jq -R .|jq -sr 'sort_by(length)[]' sort by length from (https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/3z9jff/jq_examples/) reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/3z9jff/jq_examples  user2915097 – (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2915097/user2915097) (32,384 reputation) user2915097  2017-09-12 11:49:07 +00:00 Commented (2017-09-12 11:49:07Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Sep 12, 2017 at 11:49        see also (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43930011/sort-by-memory-usage-in-docker-stats) (sort by memory usage in docker stats) stackoverflow.com/questions/43930011/… for a similar basic docker command | sort and ther is an issue on that subject, see (https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/31062) github.com/moby/moby/issues/31062  user2915097 – (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2915097/user2915097) (32,384 reputation) user2915097  2017-09-12 13:24:08 +00:00 Commented (2017-09-12 13:24:08Z, License: CC BY-SA 3.0) Sep 12, 2017 at 13:24   (this comment was edited 1 time)          (Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid answering questions in comments.) Add a comment  |  (Expand to show all comments on this post)        6 Answers 6   Sorted by:  (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46173298/how-to-sort-or-order-results-docker-ps-format?answertab=scoredesc#tab-top) Reset to default   (scoredesc) Highest score (default)  (trending) Trending (recent votes count more)  (modifieddesc) Date modified (newest first)  (createdasc) Date created (oldest first)            This answer is useful 41  (This answer is not useful)         Save this answer. (Loading when this answer was accepted…)  (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/49973096/timeline)    Show activity on this post.   If it's enough to simply sort by output column, you can use the following: docker ps -a --format "table {{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}\t{{.Ports}}" | (read -r; printf "%s\n" "$REPLY"; sort -k 3 )   I also added a code for  skipping the table headers and sorting only ps output data.   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So in this example, the container list will be sorted by the respective container's exposed ports. 2021-03-08T22:56:48.013Z+00:00    7      Reply                          This answer is useful 11  (This answer is not useful)         Save this answer. (Loading when this answer was accepted…)  (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/52908761/timeline)    Show activity on this post.   I built a docker ps pretty print function that can be put into your .bash_profile or .bashrc file that works somewhat like an alias for docker ps (with color output). (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2588010/art-rock-guitar-superhero) @art-rock-guitar-superhero  suggestions shows how to sort, but I've included this answer since typing the --format options and piping into a sort every time is a bit tedious. function docker () {
    if [[ "$@" == "ps -p" ]]; then
        command docker ps --all --format "{{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}\t{{.Image}}\t{{.Ports}}\t{{.Status}}" \
            | (echo -e "CONTAINER_ID\tNAMES\tIMAGE\tPORTS\tSTATUS" && cat) \
            | awk '{printf "\033[1;32m%s\t\033[01;38;5;95;38;5;196m%s\t\033[00m\033[1;34m%s\t\033[01;90m%s %s %s %s %s %s %s\033[00m\n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10;}' \
            | column -s$'\t' -t \
            | awk 'NR<2{print $0;next}{print $0 | "sort --key=2"}'
    else
        command docker "$@"
    fi
}   usage: $ docker ps -p . EDIT: I added suggestions from the comments from (https://stackoverflow.com/users/1566345/brian-vosburgh) @BrianVosburgh .  Also, I kept forgetting to type -p so I switched the flag for this function to be -a , which is my regular usage of docker ps .    (https://stackoverflow.com/a/52908761) (Short permalink to this answer) Share   (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/52908761/edit) Improve this answer  Follow  Follow this answer to receive notifications      (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/52908761/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2018-11-28 04:02:39Z) Nov 28, 2018 at 4:02         answered (2018-10-20 18:21:30Z) Oct 20, 2018 at 18:21   (https://stackoverflow.com/users/5567854/david-john-coleman-ii) (David John Coleman II's user avatar)    (https://stackoverflow.com/users/5567854/david-john-coleman-ii) David John Coleman II David John Coleman II (reputation score) 639 (8 silver badges)  8  8 silver badges (16 bronze badges)  16  16 bronze badges        7 Comments    Add a comment    (https://stackoverflow.com/users/1566345/brian-vosburgh)   Brian Vosburgh (https://stackoverflow.com/users/1566345/brian-vosburgh) Brian Vosburgh (2018-11-13T17:41:35.647Z) Over a year ago  (Edited 1 time)             Nice function. : ) But I think there is an extraneous backslash in the 'awk' pattern: ...196m\%s\t... should read ...196m%s\t... . 2018-11-13T17:41:35.647Z+00:00    1      Reply               (https://stackoverflow.com/users/1566345/brian-vosburgh)   Brian Vosburgh (https://stackoverflow.com/users/1566345/brian-vosburgh) Brian Vosburgh (2018-11-13T17:59:27.08Z) Over a year ago  (Edited 1 time)             Also, you could sort the table with something like this: docker ps -p | awk 'NR<2{print $0;next}{print $0 | "sort --key=2"}'  2018-11-13T17:59:27.08Z+00:00    1      Reply               (https://stackoverflow.com/users/5567854/david-john-coleman-ii)   David John Coleman II (https://stackoverflow.com/users/5567854/david-john-coleman-ii) David John Coleman II (2018-11-21T13:23:25.567Z) Over a year ago  (Edited 1 time)             @BrianVosburgh, yes, thanks, I removed the extraneous backslash.  I'm not sure why, but it had no impact on the output.  Also, the extra stuff to sort by second column (key) of name, is a nice suggestion as well, and so I've updated the original answer with your sort command. 2018-11-21T13:23:25.567Z+00:00    0      Reply               (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2294168/ser)   Ser (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2294168/ser) Ser (2021-12-01T12:43:58.82Z) Over a year ago          You cannot sort on the status, as this field contains Up 2 days , Shutdown about a day ago or whatever. It just works if all the containers were created on the same moment and they have all the same status. I create another answer that describes how to generate the ISO date from the Status value and sort on it. 2021-12-01T12:43:58.82Z+00:00    0      Reply               (https://stackoverflow.com/users/5567854/david-john-coleman-ii)   David John Coleman II (https://stackoverflow.com/users/5567854/david-john-coleman-ii) David John Coleman II (2021-12-02T17:19:40.403Z) Over a year ago          @Ser the proposed solution sorts by Name only, it's not configurable to sort by Status intentionally to make it a simple use for general purpose. 2021-12-02T17:19:40.403Z+00:00    1      Reply                Add a comment | Show 2 more comments           This answer is useful 8  (This answer is not useful)         Save this answer. (Loading when this answer was accepted…)     (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/46178116/timeline)    Show activity on this post.   Format and Order docker ps  List containers  docker ps   Synopsis  docker ps [--format="TEMPLATE"]

--format="TEMPLATE"
  Pretty-print containers using a Go template.
  Valid placeholders:
     .ID - Container ID
     .Image - Image ID
     .Command - Quoted command
     .CreatedAt - Time when the container was created.
     .RunningFor - Elapsed time since the container was started.
     .Ports - Exposed ports.
     .Status - Container status.
     .Size - Container disk size.
     .Names - Container names.
     .Labels - All labels assigned to the container.
     .Label - Value of a specific label for this container. For example {{.Label "com.docker.swarm.cpu"}}
     .Mounts - Names of the volumes mounted in this container.   Display containers with their commands  docker ps --format "{{.ID}}: {{.Command}}"   Display containers with their labels in a table  docker ps --format "table {{.ID}}\t{{.Labels}}"   Display containers with their node label in a table  docker ps --format 'table {{.ID}}\t{{(.Label "com.docker.swarm.node")}}'     (https://stackoverflow.com/a/46178116) (Short permalink to this answer) Share   (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/46178116/edit) Improve this answer  Follow  Follow this answer to receive notifications      (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/46178116/revisions) (show all edits to this post) edited (2020-07-25 13:42:34Z) Jul 25, 2020 at 13:42    (https://stackoverflow.com/users/4099593/bhargav-rao) (Bhargav Rao's user avatar)    (https://stackoverflow.com/users/4099593/bhargav-rao) Bhargav Rao (reputation score 52,557) 52.6k (29 gold badges)  29  29 gold badges (130 silver badges)  130  130 silver badges (142 bronze badges)  142  142 bronze badges     answered (2017-09-12 13:45:24Z) Sep 12, 2017 at 13:45   (https://stackoverflow.com/users/4348824/jinna-baalu) (Jinna Baalu's user avatar)    (https://stackoverflow.com/users/4348824/jinna-baalu) Jinna Baalu Jinna Baalu (reputation score) 7,957 (40 silver badges)  40  40 silver badges (51 bronze badges)  51  51 bronze badges        6 Comments    Add a comment    (https://stackoverflow.com/users/217844/ssc)   ssc (https://stackoverflow.com/users/217844/ssc) ssc (2019-07-07T19:49:52.72Z) Over a year ago          what is "$REPLY" ? 2019-07-07T19:49:52.72Z+00:00    3      Reply               (https://stackoverflow.com/users/205481/bradym)   bradym (https://stackoverflow.com/users/205481/bradym) bradym (2020-05-16T05:21:02.53Z) Over a year ago          Read is a bash builtin that reads from stdin and stores the value in a variable. If you don't provide a name for the variable it uses REPLY. (https://ss64.com/bash/read.html) ss64.com/bash/read.html  2020-05-16T05:21:02.53Z+00:00    0      Reply               (https://stackoverflow.com/users/3266847/benjamin-w)   Benjamin W. (https://stackoverflow.com/users/3266847/benjamin-w) Benjamin W. (2020-06-09T02:33:40.403Z) Over a year ago          This answer didn't contain the sorting part at all, and just copied it from the (https://stackoverflow.com/a/49973096/3266847) this answer , currently second highest voted, without attribution? 2020-06-09T02:33:40.403Z+00:00    13      Reply               (https://stackoverflow.com/users/4348824/jinna-baalu)   Jinna Baalu (https://stackoverflow.com/users/4348824/jinna-baalu) Jinna Baalu (2020-06-10T13:29:11.96Z) Over a year ago          @BenjaminW. So great that you found the answer I copied from, which I was unaware. I copied in Nov 2018, answered in Sep 2017. 2020-06-10T13:29:11.96Z+00:00    0      Reply               (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2977468/user2977468)   user2977468 (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2977468/user2977468) user2977468 (2021-03-08T22:53:05.523Z) Over a year ago  (Edited 1 time)             This does NOT sort.  Consider concise and capable (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46173298/how-to-sort-or-order-results-docker-ps-format/49973096#49973096) answer here . 2021-03-08T22:53:05.523Z+00:00    14      Reply                Add a comment | Show 1 more comment            This answer is useful 1  (This answer is not useful)         Save this answer. (Loading when this answer was accepted…)  (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/79694485/timeline)    Show activity on this post.   I usually want to sort the output by container name, which appears at the very end of each line, so I use a sed substitution to add a temporary copy of the desired column (the last column) to the front of the line, sort the new lines, then remove that temporary column: docker ps |
sed -E 's/(^.* )([^ ]*$)/\2 \1\2/' |
LC_ALL=C sort | cut -d' ' -f2-   The regex (^.* )([^ ]*$) matches the last group of characters on each line that doesn't contain a space ([^ ]*$ ), then captures that group (that regex is enclosed in parentheses), as well as all of the characters preceding it ((^.* ) ). The expression \2 \1\2 is then the second group (the container name field), a space, and the original line including the original container name field. Setting LC_ALL=C in the environment of sort ensures that fields are sorted lexicographically, so that "NAME" still appears as the column heading in the final output, rather than these headings appearing as some row other than the first row. cut -d' ' -f2- then strips out the temporary leading "NAME" column from the final output: it prints fields/columns from number 2 onwards, where fields are delimited by space characters. This is a pretty convenient way of sorting by container name, since I don't need to do something more cumbersome, like strip out extraneous spaces between columns, use sort to sort by a particular column, and then add back the spaces to format the columns nicely again. I have this pipeline as a shell alias called docker-pss : alias docker-pss="docker ps | sed -E 's/(^.* )([^ ]*$)/\2 \1\2/' | LC_ALL=C sort | cut -d' ' -f2-"   Since you want to sort by ports, and your docker ps format string has this as the last column, you should be able to use this pipeline to achieve that. However, if you want to sort by the actual port numbers that appear in this column (e.g. 80 in ::1->80/tcp or 80/tcp ), you'll have to match on the value that appears between the possible arrow (-> ) and guaranteed slash (/ ) in this field. Here's how you could do that using a sed expression of a similar nature to the one above, using the default output of docker ps , not using a custom format string: { echo -n 'PORT ' # Add extra heading for temporary column. This won't appear in the final output docker ps
} |
sed -E 's/(^.*(->| ))([0-9]+)(\/.*$)/\3 \1\3\4/' | sort -nt' ' -k1,1 | cut -d' ' -f2-   This won't correctly sort lines with an empty "PORTS" field. Instead, it will strip their container ID from the output and sort them as if their container ID was their port number. If you want to exclude such lines from the output, you can filter them out with grep before running sed: { echo -n 'PORT ' docker ps
} |
grep -E '^PORT |(->| )[0-9]+/' | # Filter out lines that lack a port number, except the heading line sed -E 's/(^.*(->| ))([0-9]+)(\/.*$)/\3 \1\3\4/' | sort -nt' ' -k1,1 | cut -d' ' -f2-     (https://stackoverflow.com/a/79694485) (Short permalink to this answer) Share   (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/79694485/edit) Improve this answer  Follow  Follow this answer to receive notifications      answered (2025-07-08 15:30:27Z) Jul 8 at 15:30   (https://stackoverflow.com/users/9996911/jivan-pal) (Jivan Pal's user avatar)    (https://stackoverflow.com/users/9996911/jivan-pal) Jivan Pal Jivan Pal (reputation score) 190 (10 bronze badges)  10  10 bronze badges        Comments  Add a comment              This answer is useful 0  (This answer is not useful)         Save this answer. (Loading when this answer was accepted…)  (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/69058374/timeline)    Show activity on this post.   Prettify Docker ps output open terminal run export command to export Env Variable you can customise according to desired output needed  export FORMAT="ID\t{{.ID}}\nNAME\t{{.Names}}\nIMAGE\t{{.Image}}\nPORTS\t{{.Ports}}\nCOMMAND\t{{.Command}}\nCREATED\t{{.CreatedAt}}\nSTATUS\t{{.Status}}\n"   run command docker ps --format="$FORMAT"   e.g Output  khizerrehan@khizerrehans-MacBook-Pro ~ % docker ps --format="$FORMAT " ID  9bfbfe65dce1
NAME    happy_joliot
IMAGE   nginx:alpine
PORTS   0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, :::80->80/tcp
COMMAND "/docker-entrypoint.…" CREATED 2021-09-05 00:20:45 +0500 PKT
STATUS  Up 4 minutes     (https://stackoverflow.com/a/69058374) (Short permalink to this answer) Share   (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/69058374/edit) Improve this answer  Follow  Follow this answer to receive notifications      answered (2021-09-04 19:28:51Z) Sep 4, 2021 at 19:28   (https://stackoverflow.com/users/6618218/khizerrehandev) (khizerrehandev's user avatar)    (https://stackoverflow.com/users/6618218/khizerrehandev) khizerrehandev khizerrehandev (reputation score) 1,577 (17 silver badges)  17  17 silver badges (15 bronze badges)  15  15 bronze badges        Comments  Add a comment              This answer is useful 0  (This answer is not useful)         Save this answer. (Loading when this answer was accepted…)  (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/70184613/timeline)    Show activity on this post.   I know this is not strictly related to the OP question, but if you want to sort on the Status date, you need to support date that are relatives : Up 2 days ago , Shutdown about a day ago etc.This bash script generates an ISO date from the Status value, then we sort on the ISO date and finally we remove the ISO date. # 1- List all containers  #    As I'm working with swarm, you may want to adapt to your docker cli usage.  #    Use "docker ps --format '{{ json . }}" to see available fields # 2- add a column that translate "Shutdown 2 days ago" into ISO date. Also supports "Shutdown about a day ago".  # 3- sort on that date # 4- remove the ISO date and add colors # 5- make the output readable docker stack ps --format '{{ .CurrentState }}\t{{ .Name }}\t{{.Node}}\t{{.Image}}' demo \
  | awk -F'\t' '{system("date --rfc-3339=seconds -u -d \"$(printf \"" $1 "\" | cut -d \" \" -f2- | sed \"s/about//g\") \" | tr -d \"\n\"") ; printf "\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5;}' \
  | sort -r \
  | awk -F'\t' '{ printf "\033[32m%s\033[39m\t%s\t%s\t%s\n", $2, $3, $4, $5, $6;}' \
  | column -o " " -t -s $'\t'   It generates something like that :(https://i.sstatic.net/4Z6Q4.png) (ordered containers by date)     (https://stackoverflow.com/a/70184613) (Short permalink to this answer) Share   (https://stackoverflow.com/posts/70184613/edit) Improve this answer  Follow  Follow this answer to receive notifications      answered (2021-12-01 12:55:53Z) Dec 1, 2021 at 12:55   (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2294168/ser) (Ser's user avatar)    (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2294168/ser) Ser Ser (reputation score) 2,920 (27 silver badges)  27  27 silver badges (33 bronze badges)  33  33 bronze badges        Comments  Add a comment          Start asking to get answers Find the answer to your question by asking. 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