Compose: How to specify CMD in the yml file?

Created on 10 Apr 2015 · 6Comments · Source: docker/compose

I have a service where I need to specify a CMD. I figured I should be able to do this in docker-compose, but I got this error:

Unsupported config option for master service: 'cmd'

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volkanunsal

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You'll need to use command:. See the documentation; https://docs.docker.com/compose/yml/#command

thaJeztah on 10 Apr 2015

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You'll need to use command:. See the documentation; https://docs.docker.com/compose/yml/#command

thaJeztah on 10 Apr 2015

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thanks!

volkanunsal on 10 Apr 2015

Link to the documentation is broken

vstoykov on 7 Nov 2016

looks like it's moved to https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/, but a redirect is missing for the old location

thaJeztah on 7 Nov 2016

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This is a bit difficult to Google for some reason. Here is docs to v2: https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v2/#command

chrissound on 26 Mar 2017

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May I suggest that this is aliased this to cmd, or at the very least "cmd" is mentioned within the "command" section of the compose file reference. I've come to this page because I ran a search for "docker-compose yml cmd" and also searched the compose file reference page for "cmd" only to find out the name is different.

Please, be consistent in the interface or at least make it easy to find things by the tools we use. This is one of the first things we all learn as developers, for good reason.

Regards,
iain