How to list files in a stopped Docker container

Question

This question shows how to copy files out of a stopped container. This requires that I know the full path to the file including its file name. I know the directory I want to c

Answer 1

If you want to see a certain file content, I would suggest using docker container cp command. Here is the doc. It works on stopped container. Example:

docker container cp 02b1ef7de80a:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf ./

This way I got the config file that was generated by templating engine during start.