moby/docs/reference/commandline/stop.md

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• /reference/commandline/stop/ description: The stop command description and usage keywords:

• stop, SIGKILL, SIGTERM

  title: docker stop

  Usage:  docker stop [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]
  
  Stop one or more running containers
  
  Options:
    --help       Print usage
  -t, --time int   Seconds to wait for stop before killing it (default 10)
  

The main process inside the container will receive SIGTERM, and after a grace period, SIGKILL.