--- title: "stop" description: "The stop command description and usage" keywords: "stop, SIGKILL, SIGTERM" --- <!-- 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. --> # stop ```markdown Usage: docker stop [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...] Stop one or more running containers Options: --help Print usage -t, --time int Seconds to wait for stop before killing it (default 10) ``` ## Description The main process inside the container will receive `SIGTERM`, and after a grace period, `SIGKILL`. ## Examples ```bash $ docker stop my_container ```