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% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals |
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% Docker Community
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# NAME |
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docker-load - Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN |
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# SYNOPSIS |
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**docker load** |
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[**--help**] |
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[**-i**|**--input**[=*INPUT*]] |
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[**-q**|**--quiet**] |
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# DESCRIPTION
Loads a tarred repository from a file or the standard input stream. |
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Restores both images and tags. Write image names or IDs imported it
standard output stream. |
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# OPTIONS |
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**--help**
Print usage statement
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**-i**, **--input**="" |
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Read from a tar archive file, instead of STDIN. The tarball may be compressed with gzip, bzip, or xz. |
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**-q**, **--quiet** |
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Suppress the load progress bar but still outputs the imported images. |
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# EXAMPLES |
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$ docker images |
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REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE |
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busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB |
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$ docker load --input fedora.tar |
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# […]
Loaded image: fedora:rawhide
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Loaded image: fedora:20
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$ docker images |
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REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE |
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busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB
fedora rawhide 0d20aec6529d 7 weeks ago 387 MB
fedora 20 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB
fedora heisenbug 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB
fedora latest 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB
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# See also |
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**docker-save(1)** to save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default). |
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# HISTORY
April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) |
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based on docker.com source material and internal work. |
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June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au> |
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July 2015 update by Mary Anthony <mary@docker.com> |
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June 2016 update by Vincent Demeester <vincent@sbr.pm> |