Docker for windows Eval command not found

Question

Eval command does not exist in Windows.

How do I run this command on Docker for Windows?

C:\Users\mary> eval "$(docker-machine env my-default)"

I can run this command just fine from Git Bash but I'm curious why the Docker tutorial says to run this command from the Windows command prompt.

Answer 1

Follow the below commands to configure your shell terminal:

docker-machine env --shell cmd my-default
FOR /f "tokens=*" %i IN ('docker-machine env --shell cmd my-default') DO %i

After successfully running the above commands you can run any docker command from the shell/cmd terminal.

Answer 2

I use the cmder console emulator. For the most part, I followed the docker docs for setting up from the windows 10 command prompt, except for the eval statement. When I attempted to run the eval statement described in the docs, I was prompted to run a different command instead (below), and it successfully activated my machine. MY-MACHINE-HERE should be the name of the machine you will have already created in an earlier step.

@FOR /f "tokens=*" %i IN ('docker-machine env MYMACHINEHERE') DO @%i

Hope This Will Help

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