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=Overview=
=Overview=


Attaches the invoking shell's stdin, stdout and stderr to the container specified as argument. Attachment will only succeed if the target container was started in interactive mode. The container to attach to should be started in [[Docker_run#-i.2C_--interactive|interactive mode]], giving the ability to type into it, and with a [[Docker_run#-t.2C_--tty|TTY]] so you can see the input and output:
Attaches the invoking shell's stdin, stdout and stderr to the container specified as argument.  
 
The attachment will succeed only if the target container was started in [[Docker_Concepts#Interactive_Mode|interactive mode]]:


  docker run [-d] -i alpine1 alpine ash
  docker run [-d] -i alpine1 alpine ash


Then, the attachment can be performed later:
Then, the attachment can be performed with:


  docker attach alpine1
  docker attach alpine1

Revision as of 07:40, 3 May 2018

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Overview

Attaches the invoking shell's stdin, stdout and stderr to the container specified as argument.

The attachment will succeed only if the target container was started in interactive mode:

docker run [-d] -i alpine1 alpine ash

Then, the attachment can be performed with:

docker attach alpine1