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 * Change management: changes to a container's filesystem can be committed into a new image and re-used to create more containers. No templating or manual configuration required.
 
-* Interactive shell: docker can allocate a pseudo-tty and attach to the standard input of any container, for example to run a throaway interactive shell.
+* Interactive shell: docker can allocate a pseudo-tty and attach to the standard input of any container, for example to run a throwaway interactive shell.