In this post, we show how to copy a file to a running docker container. Also we show how to copy an existing file inside a running docker container to your local folder.
For copying a file inside a running docker container the command is:
docker cp yourfile container-id://path-inside-docker
For example to copy a test.txt file into a docker container with the name mydocker in the /var folder the command is :
docker cp test.txt mydocker:/var
Also for copying a file inside a running docker container to your current directory the command is:
docker cp container-id://path-inside-docker/yourfile .
For example to copy test.txt file inside /var folder in a docker container with the name mydocker to your local folder, the command is :
docker cp mydocker:/var/test.txt .
