# Searching

Searching for Docker images, as described in [Searching for Components](https://help.sonatype.com/en/searching-for-components.html "Searching for Components"), finds any images stored in local repositories; either in a hosted repository or proxied from an upstream public repository.

The docker client is preconfigured to search and find images only from Docker Hub.

When directing the docker client to a group repository in Nexus Repository, the docker client may search both local images and those found in Docker Hub.

To search the public repository use the Docker client command line:

The following example of using the Docker client command line to search for a `postgres` image running on the host `nexus.example.com`. In this example, the group repository is exposed through the repository connector port of `18443`.

```
docker search nexus.example.com:18443/postgres
```

The results include images found in the repositories that are part of the repository group.

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