Bash not resizing correctly within interactive Docker container

Your PS1 also gives me black and white output.

However switching back to mine gives me color, so you should be able to figure out the different, I use

$ echo $PS1
\[\033[01;31m\]\t \[\033[01;32m\]durrantm \[\033[02;36m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\]`pwd | sed "s#\(/[^/]\{1,\}/[^/]\{1,\}/[^/]\{1,\}/\).*\(/[^/]\{1,\}/[^/]\{1,\}\)/\{0,1\}#\1_\2#g"` \[\033[00;33m\]$(git_branch)\[\033[00m\]\n\$

git_branch is a bash function I have which is:

git_branch () { 
  git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/\1/'
}

Yours vs. Mine:

This works the same on OSX and Ubuntu

If you run a container..

eg

docker run alpine echo hello

It looks like it cleans up afterwards...

% docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES

But it doesn't it's still there.

% docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS                      PORTS               NAMES
3a4772c0f165        alpine              "echo hello"        22 seconds ago      Exited (0) 20 seconds ago                       relaxed_ramanujan

This can be cleaned up with the rm command

% docker container rm 3a4772c0f165 
3a4772c0f165

% docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES

So:

• docker kill will kill a container.
• docker rm will clean up a terminated container.

They are different things.

Note: you can tell containers to auto-clean:

% docker run --rm alpine echo hello
hello

% docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES

Then you don't need to manually rm.