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6 podman-container-exists - Check if a container exists in local storage
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10 podman container exists [options] container
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14 podman container exists checks if a container exists in local storage.
15 The container ID or name is used as input. Podman will return an exit
16 code of 0 when the container is found. A 1 will be returned otherwise.
17 An exit code of 125 indicates there was an issue accessing the local
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23 Check for external containers as well as Podman containers. These ex‐
24 ternal containers are generally created via other container technology
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37 Check if a container called "webclient" exists in local storage. Here,
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72 November 2018, Originally compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com
73 ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩
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