#!/bin/bash exname=$(basename "$0") usage="$exname [-h|--help] CONTAINER SIGNAL" container= signal= while [ "$1" ]; do case "$1" in "--help"|"-h") echo "$usage" >&2 exit 0 ;; *) [ -z "$container" ] && { container=$1 ; shift ; continue ; } [ -z "$signal" ] && { signal=$1 ; shift ; continue ; } echo "Unexpected argument '$1'." >&2 exit 1 ;; esac shift done if [ -z "$container" ]; then echo "You must provide a container name/id as first argument." >&2 echo "$usage" >&2 exit 1 fi if [ -z "$signal" ]; then echo "You must provide a signal to send to $container aargument." >&2 echo "$usage" >&2 exit 1 fi container_id="$(docker inspect --format="{{ .Id }}" "$container")" echo -e "POST /containers/$container_id/kill?signal=$signal HTTP/1.0\r\n" | nc -U /var/run/docker.sock