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Shubhendu Shubham @myselfshubhendu

Clearing Docker Container Terminal: Installing Linux Utilities

Stuck in a Docker container? Try `dnf install util-linux` to get the `clear` command working! Container OS image: `cat /etc/os-release`. Package manager varies by distro.

if you're inside docker container using cli trying to modify files and wanna clear yout terminal , you tried ctl + l or clear command but getting response like

bash: clear: command not found


    
    

    
    




don't worry it's due to container nature, since it always install bare minimum utilities so we can manually install linux utility to work smoothly . 

Find out container os image


bash-5.2# cat /etc/os-release

    
    

    
    





here in my case Wazuh Manager container is running on Amazon Linux, which is based on Fedora, the package manager to use is dnf.

now we can in...