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Reputation: 5181

Command line arguments to Docker CMD

I want to pass in a parameter into a docker CMD. For example, if the contents of Dockerfile are

FROM ubuntu:15.04
CMD ["/bin/bash", "-c", "cat", "$1"]

Then I want to run as follows:

docker build -t cat_a_file .
docker run -v `pwd`:/data cat_a_file /data/Dockerfile

I would like the contents of Dockerfile to be printed to the screen. But instead, Docker thinks that /data/Dockerfile is a script that should override the CMD, giving the error

Error response from daemon: Cannot start container 7cfca4: 
[8] System error: exec: "/data/Dockerfile": permission denied

How can this be avoided?

Upvotes: 46

Views: 80846

Answers (1)

Adrian Mouat
Adrian Mouat

Reputation: 46548

Use ENTRYPOINT for stuff like this. Any CMD parameters are appended to the given ENTRYPOINT.

So, if you update the Dockerfile to:

FROM ubuntu:15.04
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash", "-c", "cat"]

Things should work as you wish.

Also, as you don't need the $1, you should be able to change it to:

FROM ubuntu:15.04
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/cat"]

I haven't tested any of this, so let me know if it doesn't work.

Upvotes: 50

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