% podman-exec "1" ## NAME podman\-exec - Execute a command in a running container ## SYNOPSIS **podman exec** *container* [*options*] [*command* [*arg* ...]] ## DESCRIPTION **podman exec** executes a command in a running container. ## OPTIONS **--env, -e** You may specify arbitrary environment variables that are available for the command to be executed. **--interactive, -i** Not supported. All exec commands are interactive by default. **--latest, -l** Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the last created container. If you use methods other than Podman to run containers such as CRI-O, the last started container could be from either of those methods. **--privileged** Give the process extended Linux capabilities when running the command in container. **--tty, -t** Allocate a pseudo-TTY. **--user, -u** Sets the username or UID used and optionally the groupname or GID for the specified command. The following examples are all valid: --user [user | user:group | uid | uid:gid | user:gid | uid:group ] ## EXAMPLES ## SEE ALSO podman(1), podman-run(1) ## HISTORY December 2017, Originally compiled by Brent Baude