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apptainer-shell

Start an interactive shell within an Apptainer container. tldr-pages

On Linux

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Start an interactive shell inside a container

apptainer shell path/to/image.sifIdentify

Start a shell with a bind mount from host to container

apptainer shell --bind path/to/source:path/to/destination path/to/image.sifIdentify

Start a shell with environment variables

apptainer shell --env variable=value path/to/image.sifIdentify

Start a shell in fully isolated mode (contained filesystem, PID, IPC, and clean environment)

apptainer shell --containall path/to/image.sifIdentify

Start a shell with a writable temporary filesystem overlay

apptainer shell --writable-tmpfs path/to/image.sifIdentify

Start a shell with NVIDIA GPU support

apptainer shell --nv path/to/image.sifIdentify

Start a shell using a specific shell program

apptainer shell --shell path/to/shell path/to/image.sifIdentify

Display help

apptainer shell --helpIdentify