diff --git a/SETUP.md b/SETUP.md
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@@ -18,4 +18,11 @@ To execute the database and backend run the following command in the root direct
 ```bash
 docker compose -f dev-compose.yml up -d
 ```
-
+or if you only want to execute 1 or n containers the syntax is the following
+```bash
+docker compose -f dev-compose.yml up -d postgres backend frontend
+```
+this starts all the containers however you can just remove them as you like. If you want to stop all docker containers run
+```bash
+docker compose -f dev.compose.yml down
+```
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