How to retrieve the canister ids of all running canisters locally?

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I am developing a canister that creates other canisters and I want to test it. Is there a way to retrieve using dfx the canister Ids of all canisters running in my local replica?

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Not really with dfx. This is probably the most pragmatic way, although this only lists canisters in your project:

❯ cat .dfx/local/canister_ids.json
{
  "__Candid_UI": {
    "local": "be2us-64aaa-aaaaa-qaabq-cai"
  },
  "hello_backend": {
    "local": "bkyz2-fmaaa-aaaaa-qaaaq-cai"
  },
  "hello_frontend": {
    "local": "bd3sg-teaaa-aaaaa-qaaba-cai"
  }
}%

If you really want a list of all canisters, go to the dashboard that dfx start points you to. It contains a list of all canisters on this replica

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