singularity Command Examples

Manage Singularity containers and images. More information: https://singularity-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#commands.

• Download a remote image from Sylabs Cloud:

singularity pull --name {{image.sif}} {{library://godlovedc/funny/lolcow:latest}}

• Rebuild a remote image using the latest Singularity image format:

singularity build {{image.sif}} {{docker://godlovedc/lolcow}}

• Start a container from an image and get a shell inside it:

singularity shell {{image.sif}}

• Start a container from an image and run a command:

singularity exec {{image.sif}} {{command}}

• Start a container from an image and execute the internal runscript:

singularity run {{image.sif}}

• Build a singularity image from a recipe file:

sudo singularity build {{image.sif}} {{recipe}}