toolbox-run - Man Page

• Run a command inside a specific toolbox container: toolbox run --container container_name command
• Run a command inside a toolbox container for a specific release of a distribution: toolbox run --distro distribution --release release command
• Run emacs inside a toolbox container using the default image for Fedora 36: toolbox run --distro fedora --release f36 emacs

tldr.sh

toolbox run [--container NAME | -c NAME]
           [--distro DISTRO | -d DISTRO]
           [--release RELEASE | -r RELEASE]
           [COMMAND]

Runs a command inside an existing toolbox container. The container should have been created using the toolbox create command.

On Fedora, the default container is known as fedora-toolbox-N, where N is the release of the host. A specific container can be selected using the --container option.

A toolbox container is an OCI container. Therefore, toolbox run is analogous to a podman start followed by a podman exec.

The following options are understood:

--container

NAME, -c NAME

Run command inside a toolbox container with the given NAME. This is useful when there are multiple toolbox containers created from the same image, or entirely customized containers created from custom-built images.

--distro

DISTRO, -d DISTRO

Run command inside a toolbox container for a different operating system DISTRO than the host.

--release

RELEASE, -r RELEASE

Run command inside a toolbox container for a different operating system RELEASE than the host.

toolbox(1), podman(1), podman-exec(1), podman-start(1)

toolbox(1), toolbox-enter(1).