DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals DOCKER(1) (NAME) docker-container-attach - (SYNOPSIS) docker container attach [OPTIONS] CONTAINER (DESCRIPTION) docker attach . ( ) (detached) . CTRL-c . SIGKILL . ( ). CTRL-p CTRL-q . --detach-keys . config-json(5) . (stdin) docker attach TTY ( -i -t ) . (EXAMPLES) (Attaching to a container) top alpine (detached) CTRL-c : $ docker run -d --name topdemo alpine top -b $ docker attach topdemo Mem: 2395856K used, 5638884K free, 2328K shrd, 61904K buff, 1524264K cached CPU: 0% usr 0% sys 0% nic 99% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq Load average: 0.15 0.06 0.01 1/567 6 PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND 1 0 root R 1700 0% 3 0% top -b ^C (Override the detach sequence) --detach-keys (detach) . . : . --detach-keys=key docker attach . key [a-Z] ctrl-value value : o a-z ( ) o @ ( at) o [ ( ) o *\\* ( ) o _ () o ^ () a ctrl-a X *ctrl-\* . docker(1) . (OPTIONS) --detach-keys="" --no-stdin[=false] STDIN --sig-proxy[=true] (SEE ALSO) docker-container(1) Docker Community Aug 2026 DOCKER(1)