When I run docker ps to look at docker containers, the results are typically wrapped and are hard
to read due to too many displayed columns.
A good solution is to pipe the output to less with an -s flag which chops long lines.
docker ps | less -S
The result is a tabular display that fits on the screen and looks something like this.
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
72cebf9ede0c ghcr.io/linuxserver/bookstack "/init" 30 hours ago Up 14 hours 443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:6890->80/tcp bookstack
2250d96b7203 ghcr.io/linuxserver/mariadb "/init" 30 hours ago Up 30 hours 3306/tcp bookstack_db
a46886b6a048 alpine:latest "/bin/sh" 2 days ago Up 2 days 0.0.0.0:5000->80/tcp optimistic_lederberg
f6c1ffd8026b ruby:2.7.4-alpine3.14 "irb" 13 days ago Up 13 days ruby-2.7
9d68028b9f75 wordpress:latest "docker-entrypoint.s…" 5 months ago Up 5 months 0.0.0.0:4444->80/tcp wordpress_setup_wordpress_1
ef916710b8b2 mysql:5.7 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 5 months ago Up 5 months 3306/tcp, 33060/tcp
Hit the left and right keys to see more columns in the terminal.