When using `docker rm` / `docker container rm` with the `-f` / `--force` option, attempts to remove non-existing containers should print a warning, but should return a zero exit code ("successful").
Currently, a non-zero exit code is returned, marking the removal as "failed";
$ docker rm -fv 798c9471b695
Error: No such container: 798c9471b695
$ echo $?
1
The command should match the behavior of `rm` / `rm -f`, with the exception that
a warning is printed (instead of silently ignored):
Running `rm` with `-f` silences output and returns a zero exit code:
touch some-file && rm -f no-such-file some-file; echo exit code: $?; ls -la
# exit code: 0
# total 0
# drwxr-xr-x 2 sebastiaan staff 64 Aug 14 12:17 .
# drwxr-xr-x 199 sebastiaan staff 6368 Aug 14 12:13 ..
mkdir some-directory && rm -rf no-such-directory some-directory; echo exit code: $?; ls -la
# exit code: 0
# total 0
# drwxr-xr-x 2 sebastiaan staff 64 Aug 14 12:17 .
# drwxr-xr-x 199 sebastiaan staff 6368 Aug 14 12:13 ..
Note that other reasons for a delete to fail should still result in a non-zero
exit code, matching the behavior of `rm`. For instance, in the example below,
the `rm` failed because directories can only be removed if the `-r` option is used;
touch some-file && mkdir some-directory && rm -f some-directory no-such-file some-file; echo exit code: $?; ls -la
# rm: some-directory: is a directory
# exit code: 1
# total 0
# drwxr-xr-x 3 sebastiaan staff 96 Aug 14 14:15 .
# drwxr-xr-x 199 sebastiaan staff 6368 Aug 14 12:13 ..
# drwxr-xr-x 2 sebastiaan staff 64 Aug 14 14:15 some-directory
This patch updates the `docker rm` / `docker container rm` command to not produce
an error when attempting to remove a missing containers, and instead only print
the error, but return a zero (0) exit code.
With this patch applied:
docker create --name mycontainer busybox \
&& docker rm nosuchcontainer mycontainer; \
echo exit code: $?; \
docker ps -a --filter name=mycontainer
# df23cc8573f00e97d6e948b48d9ea7d75ce3b4faaab4fe1d3458d3bfa451f39d
# mycontainer
# Error: No such container: nosuchcontainer
# exit code: 0
# CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
Sebastiaan van Stijn