Docker: How to delete all local Docker images

For Unix

To delete all containers including its volumes use,

docker rm -vf $(docker ps -a -q)

To delete all the images,

docker rmi -f $(docker images -a -q)

Remember, you should remove all the containers before removing all the images from which those containers were created.

For Windows

In case you are working on Windows (Powershell),

$images = docker images -a -q
foreach ($image in $images) { docker image rm $image -f }

Based on the comment from CodeSix, one liner for Windows Powershell,

docker images -a -q | % { docker image rm $_ -f }

For Windows using command line,

for /F %i in ('docker images -a -q') do docker rmi -f %i

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