moby: docker service ls --filter on name is not an exact match

The command docker service ls --filter name=foo will return both the services foo and foobar, and there seems to be no built-in option to change this mode. It makes sense when filtering on an id to make it match on whichever part of the id you use, but it would be handy if filters would be able to maybe use regex, like so: docker service ls --filter name=^foo$

If this might be considered a feature request, let’s consider it for all other filterable output too.

docker version

Docker version 17.04.0-ce, build 4845c56

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About this issue

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State: open
Created 7 years ago
Reactions: 15
Comments: 16 (3 by maintainers)

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@shouze Actually, there is a specific use case: I want to be able to filter on the specific service “foo”, and not get the service “foobar” in my results.

MetalArend on Jul 6, 2018

Do we have any update on this ? This is a nice and useful feature, all filters should have this regexp option

antho1404 on Feb 19, 2019

Please, add the regex option. Docker syntax is sometimes inconsitent and as I use a script I programmed for easier deployment, this detail was irritating. Because:

with the service-command it’s not working

# docker service ls --filter name='^example$'
ID                  NAME                MODE                REPLICAS            IMAGE               PORTS
# docker service ls --filter name='example'
ID                  NAME                MODE                REPLICAS            IMAGE               PORTS
9ejv73a7umq9        example             replicated          1/1                 nginx:latest        
v65pfg516cbj        example1            replicated          3/3                 nginx:latest        *:12345->80/tcp
2pmfad6ctlj3        example2            replicated          3/3                 nginx:latest        *:12346->80/tcp

with the network-command it’s working!

# docker network ls --filter name='^example$'
NETWORK ID          NAME                DRIVER              SCOPE
3800c6664e9a        example             bridge              local

BBQigniter on May 29, 2018

+1 same issue, need external processing to exact match de name of my service.

sk8federico on Nov 30, 2020

+1 😞

greenbp on Feb 2, 2021

Also - this type of filtering behavior is inconsistent with docker network ls --filter. If I have networks foo, bar, and foobar, then docker network ls --filter name=foo it’ll just return foo

new-guy on Mar 19, 2019

This is working as intended currently (see https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/service_ls/#name)

Also see https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/22522

There’s a feature request for “negative” filters in https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/13533, but adding more options may need some discussion

thaJeztah on Nov 16, 2017