To easily copy files from a Docker image when you dont want to start a container, you can do the following:
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docker cp $(docker create --rm $IMAGE):$FROM_PATH $TO_PATH
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Sometimes it is useful to compare the output of a command between two Docker images, especially comparing different versions of a particular image:
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docker run --rm -ti --entrypoint=bash $IMAGE1 -c "$CMD" > /tmp/output1.tmp
docker run --rm -ti --entrypoint=bash $IMAGE2 -c "$CMD" > /tmp/output2.tmp
diff -s /tmp/output1.tmp /tmp/output2.tmp
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I have both these command patterns saved as executable Bash shell scripts on my system path as cp_docker and diff_docker_cmd respectively.
Each of the scripts can be found here:
cp_docker
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#!/bin/bash
IMAGE=$1
FROM_PATH=$2
TO_PATH=$3
docker cp $(docker create --rm $IMAGE):$FROM_PATH $TO_PATH
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diff_docker_cmd
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#!/bin/bash
IMAGE1=$1
IMAGE2=$2
CMD=$3
docker run --rm -ti --entrypoint=bash $IMAGE1 -c "$CMD" > /tmp/output1.tmp \
&& docker run --rm -ti --entrypoint=bash $IMAGE2 -c "$CMD" > /tmp/output2.tmp \
&& diff -s /tmp/output1.tmp /tmp/output2.tmp && rm /tmp/output*.tmp
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