github.com/pwn-term/docker@v0.0.0-20210616085119-6e977cce2565/cli/docs/reference/commandline/history.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: "history" 3 description: "The history command description and usage" 4 keywords: "docker, image, history" 5 --- 6 7 # history 8 9 ```markdown 10 Usage: docker history [OPTIONS] IMAGE 11 12 Show the history of an image 13 14 Options: 15 --format string Pretty-print images using a Go template 16 --help Print usage 17 -H, --human Print sizes and dates in human readable format (default true) 18 --no-trunc Don't truncate output 19 -q, --quiet Only show image IDs 20 ``` 21 22 23 ## Examples 24 25 To see how the `docker:latest` image was built: 26 27 ```bash 28 $ docker history docker 29 30 IMAGE CREATED CREATED BY SIZE COMMENT 31 3e23a5875458 8 days ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) ENV LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 0 B 32 8578938dd170 8 days ago /bin/sh -c dpkg-reconfigure locales && loc 1.245 MB 33 be51b77efb42 8 days ago /bin/sh -c apt-get update && apt-get install 338.3 MB 34 4b137612be55 6 weeks ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD jessie.tar.xz in / 121 MB 35 750d58736b4b 6 weeks ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) MAINTAINER Tianon Gravi <ad 0 B 36 511136ea3c5a 9 months ago 0 B Imported from - 37 ``` 38 39 To see how the `docker:apache` image was added to a container's base image: 40 41 ```bash 42 $ docker history docker:scm 43 IMAGE CREATED CREATED BY SIZE COMMENT 44 2ac9d1098bf1 3 months ago /bin/bash 241.4 MB Added Apache to Fedora base image 45 88b42ffd1f7c 5 months ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD file:1fd8d7f9f6557cafc7 373.7 MB 46 c69cab00d6ef 5 months ago /bin/sh -c #(nop) MAINTAINER Lokesh Mandvekar 0 B 47 511136ea3c5a 19 months ago 0 B Imported from - 48 ``` 49 50 ### Format the output 51 52 The formatting option (`--format`) will pretty-prints history output 53 using a Go template. 54 55 Valid placeholders for the Go template are listed below: 56 57 | Placeholder | Description | 58 | --------------- | ----------- | 59 | `.ID` | Image ID | 60 | `.CreatedSince` | Elapsed time since the image was created if `--human=true`, otherwise timestamp of when image was created | 61 | `.CreatedAt` | Timestamp of when image was created | 62 | `.CreatedBy` | Command that was used to create the image | 63 | `.Size` | Image disk size | 64 | `.Comment` | Comment for image | 65 66 When using the `--format` option, the `history` command will either 67 output the data exactly as the template declares or, when using the 68 `table` directive, will include column headers as well. 69 70 The following example uses a template without headers and outputs the 71 `ID` and `CreatedSince` entries separated by a colon (`:`) for the `busybox` 72 image: 73 74 ```bash 75 $ docker history --format "{{.ID}}: {{.CreatedSince}}" busybox 76 77 f6e427c148a7: 4 weeks ago 78 <missing>: 4 weeks ago 79 ```