github.com/AliyunContainerService/cli@v0.0.0-20181009023821-814ced4b30d0/docs/reference/commandline/stop.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: "stop" 3 description: "The stop command description and usage" 4 keywords: "stop, SIGKILL, SIGTERM" 5 --- 6 7 <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/cli GitHub 8 repository at https://github.com/docker/cli/. Make all 9 pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in 10 another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will 11 periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull 12 requests which include edits to this file in other repositories 13 will be rejected. 14 --> 15 16 # stop 17 18 ```markdown 19 Usage: docker stop [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...] 20 21 Stop one or more running containers 22 23 Options: 24 --help Print usage 25 -t, --time int Seconds to wait for stop before killing it (default 10) 26 ``` 27 28 ## Description 29 30 The main process inside the container will receive `SIGTERM`, and after a grace 31 period, `SIGKILL`. 32 33 ## Examples 34 35 ```bash 36 $ docker stop my_container 37 ```