'Docker command returns "invalid reference format"

I'am using docker and using the following command:

docker run -d -p 9090:80 -v $(pwd):/usr/share/nginx/html nginx:alpine

to point to my /dist folder where my app-files are compiled by angular.

I first go to /dist folder and then run the command from there. This was working fine and I was able to reach the app via port: 9090, but after docker update, I run in error:

docker: invalid reference format. See 'docker run --help'.

I have been searching and checked the following posting docker : invalid reference format, but it seems to be different to my issue. Here is the info based on the command: docker version:

Client:
 Version:      17.09.0-ce
 API version:  1.32
 Go version:   go1.8.3
 Git commit:   afdb6d4
 Built:        Tue Sep 26 22:40:09 2017
 OS/Arch:      darwin/amd64

Server:
 Version:      17.09.0-ce
 API version:  1.32 (minimum version 1.12)
 Go version:   go1.8.3
 Git commit:   afdb6d4
 Built:        Tue Sep 26 22:45:38 2017
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
 Experimental: false

Any idea please?

docker

Solution 1:^[1]

Your $(pwd) has characters that are not liked (e.g., spaces). Try using quotes around it:

docker run -d -p 9090:80 -v "$(pwd):/usr/share/nginx/html" nginx:alpine

Solution 2:^[2]

Seems like you have an invalid name somewhere. Did you try to output pwd ?

Try to change the pwd with a static path.

Take a look at the documentation it might help you as well https://docs.docker.com/v1.10/engine/reference/commandline/run/#mount-volume-v-read-only

Solution 3:^[3]

For me this happened because I left the name blank. Use -t somename to set a name when building

Solution 4:^[4]

This answer is specific to Google Cloud's Compute Engine (VM Instance).

When specifying the image container to use in the VM settings, including the :latest tag explicitly at the end of the container input was causing the invalid reference format error.

So I had to put this: gcr.io/project/container

Not this: gcr.io/project/container:latest

Solution 5:^[5]

If you are running the docker command from within the Shell script then enabling the verbose mode will help in finding the issue.

set -x

set -v

I also came across this issue and while debugging found that image tag was ending with CR character and because of that I was getting "invalid reference format".

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Solution	Source
Solution 1	Ognyan Dimitrov
Solution 2	Mohamed Salem Lamiri
Solution 3	m1212e
Solution 4	contactmatt
Solution 5	Rakesh Chauhan

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