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Expand Up @@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ streams of the container to a pseudo terminal, creating an interactive terminal
session for the container. See [Allocate a pseudo-TTY](#tty) for more examples.

```console
$ docker run -it debian
$ docker run -it alpine
root@10a3e71492b0:/# factor 90
90: 2 3 3 5
root@10a3e71492b0:/# exit
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1058,11 +1058,11 @@ your terminal to the I/O streams of the container. Allocating a pseudo-TTY to
the container means that you get access to input and output feature that TTY
devices provide.

For example, the following command runs the `passwd` command in a `debian`
For example, the following command runs the `passwd` command in an `alpine`
container, to set a new password for the `root` user.

```console
$ docker run -i debian passwd root
$ docker run -i alpine passwd root
New password: karjalanpiirakka9
Retype new password: karjalanpiirakka9
passwd: password updated successfully
Expand All @@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ text. However, if you try the same thing but also adding the `-t` flag, the
password is hidden:

```console
$ docker run -it debian passwd root
$ docker run -it alpine passwd root
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1332,7 +1332,7 @@ Specify `--ulimit` with a soft and hard limit in the format
`<type>=<soft limit>[:<hard limit>]`. For example:

```console
$ docker run --ulimit nofile=1024:1024 --rm debian sh -c "ulimit -n"
$ docker run --ulimit nofile=1024:1024 --rm alpine sh -c "ulimit -n"
1024
```

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