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title: “unpause” description: “The unpause command description and usage” keywords: “cgroups, suspend, container”

unpause

Usage:  docker unpause CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]

Unpause all processes within one or more containers

Options:
      --help   Print usage

The docker unpause command un-suspends all processes in the specified containers. On Linux, it does this using the cgroups freezer.

See the cgroups freezer documentation for further details.

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• pause