Remove all stopped containers: “docker rm” requires at least 1 argument

Question

I\'m reading a book on docker. It is a couple of years old.

I\'ll cite:

If you want to get rid of all your stopped containers, you can use
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Answer 1

It could simply means that you have no container with a status 'exited'.

The commands becomes then:

sudo docker rm -v

The lack of any parameter would trigger the error message you see.

But today, this would be done with docker container prune anyway.