command: docker stop short: Stop one or more running containers long: |- The main process inside the container will receive `SIGTERM`, and after a grace period, `SIGKILL`. The first signal can be changed with the `STOPSIGNAL` instruction in the container's Dockerfile, or the `--stop-signal` option to `docker run`. usage: docker stop [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...] pname: docker plink: docker.yaml options: - option: time shorthand: t value_type: int default_value: "10" description: Seconds to wait for stop before killing it deprecated: false experimental: false experimentalcli: false kubernetes: false swarm: false examples: |- ```console $ docker stop my_container ``` deprecated: false experimental: false experimentalcli: false kubernetes: false swarm: false