--- title: "start" description: "The start command description and usage" keywords: ["Start, container, stopped"] --- <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/docker Github repository at https://github.com/docker/docker/. Make all pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull requests which include edits to this file in other repositories will be rejected. --> # start ```markdown Usage: docker start [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...] Start one or more stopped containers Options: -a, --attach Attach STDOUT/STDERR and forward signals --detach-keys string Override the key sequence for detaching a container --help Print usage -i, --interactive Attach container's STDIN ```