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Document that load supports compressed tarballs.
As per
https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/ecdbf868842f702e2b824aa1e11097809d48a659/pkg/archive/archive.go#L96
Signed-off-by: Andy Rothfusz <github@developersupport.net>
Andy Rothfusz authored on 2015/07/15 07:43:59Showing 1 changed files
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Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN |
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- -i, --input="" Read from a tar archive file, instead of STDIN |
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+ -i, --input="" Read from a tar archive file, instead of STDIN. The tarball may be compressed with gzip, bzip, or xz |
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Loads a tarred repository from a file or the standard input stream. |
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Restores both images and tags. |
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$ docker images |
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REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED VIRTUAL SIZE |
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- $ docker load < busybox.tar |
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+ $ docker load < busybox.tar.gz |
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$ docker images |
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REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED VIRTUAL SIZE |
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busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB |