List and manage local container images with podman images
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Documented steps
List images in local storage: `podman images` (alias of podman image list/ls) — shows repository, tag, image ID, created, size.
Show only image IDs for scripting: `podman images --quiet` / `podman images -q`.
Find dangling (untagged, unused) images using disk space: `podman images --filter dangling=true`.
Filter by name or other selectors: `podman images --filter reference='img:.*-alpine'` or `--filter before=IMAGE`, `--filter since=IMAGE`, `--filter until=10m`.
Show digests with `--digests`; full non-truncated IDs with `--no-trunc`; see name history with `--history` (useful to find untagged images).
Print custom columns with a Go template: `podman images --format 'table {{.Repository}} {{.Tag}} {{.Size}}'` or plain `json`.
Official docs: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-images.1.html
Known gotchas
By default podman images filters out intermediate layers; use --all (-a) to show them.
The `containers` filter lists only images that have a running container based on them.
--filter until accepts unix timestamps, dates like 2026-08-13, or Go durations like 10m / 1h30m.
Images with no repository/tag show as <none>/<none> and are typically dangling — candidates for `podman image prune`.
--sort defaults to created; sorting by repository also sorts by tag secondarily.
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