How to access current directory with Boot2Docker and Docker?

Question

I run Docker container

docker run -it python

from which I can't see my local files.

How can I mount my current (host) directory (from which I run docker ) as current directory inside the docker container? So that I can

import file

inside the container and it will find the local file.py .

I could only find complicated solutions, where I have to explicitly mount the host directory, which seems to require absolute paths, where I'd like to type something dynamic like . as path (doesn't work).

Answer 1

You mean like:

docker run -v $(pwd)/:/codedir -it python

?

You can't use relative paths like "." in volume commands. If it annoys you that much, try using Docker Compose, which does allow relative paths.