Description

Right now in order to enter a running docker container you will have to type docker ps and then grab the image name or ID and then run docker exec -it <Image name or ID> bash With this script all you need to pass in the image name as an argument, and if a container is running using that image, you will enter that container

Setup

• Clone the repo
• CD in the directory where the repo exists and run the following command

chmod +x execute.sh

• Add alias in ~/.bash_profile

alias docker-exec="{Absolute path to repo}/docker-exec-shortcut/execute.sh $1"

• Run the following the command

source ~/.bash_profile

Example

docker ps 

70bb07a7c10d        mysql:5.6           "docker-entrypoint.s…"   29 minutes ago      Up 29 minutes       3306/tcp                 resume-builder_mysql_1

docker-exec mysql