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@@ -84,8 +84,68 @@ Right now, the officially supported distributions are:
 Docker probably works on other distributions featuring a recent kernel, the AUFS patch, and up-to-date lxc. However this has not been tested.
 
 
+Usage examples
+==============
+
+Running an interactive shell
+----------------------------
+
+```bash
+	# Download a base image
+	docker import base
+
+	# Run an interactive shell in the base image,
+	# allocate a tty, attach stdin and stdout
+	docker run -a -i -t base /bin/bash
+```
+
+
+Starting a long-running worker process
+--------------------------------------
+
+```bash
+	# Run docker in daemon mode
+	(docker -d || echo "Docker daemon already running") &
+
+	# Start a very useful long-running process
+	JOB=$(docker run /bin/sh -c "while true; do echo Hello world!; sleep 1; done")
+
+	# Collect the output of the job so far
+	docker logs $JOB
+
+	# Kill the job
+	docker kill $JOB
+```
+
+
+Listing all running containers
+------------------------------
+
+```bash
+	docker ps
+```
+
+
+Expose a service on a TCP port
+------------------------------
+
+```bash
+	# Expose port 4444 of this container, and tell netcat to listen on it
+	JOB=$(docker run -p 4444 base /bin/nc -l -p 4444)
+
+	# Which public port is NATed to my container?
+	PORT=$(docker port $JOB 4444)
+
+	# Connect to the public port via the host's public address
+	echo hello world | nc $(hostname) $PORT
+
+	# Verify that the network connection worked
+	echo "Daemon received: $(docker logs $JOB)"
+```
+
+
 What is a Standard Container?
------------------------------
+=============================
 
 Docker defines a unit of software delivery called a Standard Container. The goal of a Standard Container is to encapsulate a software component and all its dependencies in
 a format that is self-describing and portable, so that any compliant runtime can run it without extra dependency, regardless of the underlying machine and the contents of the container.