1 .TH "DOCKER" "1" " Docker User Manuals" "Docker Community" "JUNE 2014"  ""

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     4 .SH NAME

     5 .PP

     6 docker\-load \- Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN

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     9 .SH SYNOPSIS

    10 .PP

    11 \fBdocker load\fP

    12 [\fB\-\-help\fP]

    13 [\fB\-i\fP|\fB\-\-input\fP[=\fIINPUT\fP]]

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    16 .SH DESCRIPTION

    17 .PP

    18 Loads a tarred repository from a file or the standard input stream.

    19 Restores both images and tags.

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    22 .SH OPTIONS

    23 .PP

    24 \fB\-\-help\fP

    25   Print usage statement

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    27 .PP

    28 \fB\-i\fP, \fB\-\-input\fP=""

    29    Read from a tar archive file, instead of STDIN. The tarball may be compressed with gzip, bzip, or xz.

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    32 .SH EXAMPLES

    33 .PP

    34 .RS

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    36 .nf

    37 $ docker images

    38 REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE

    39 busybox             latest              769b9341d937        7 weeks ago         2.489 MB

    40 $ docker load \-\-input fedora.tar

    41 $ docker images

    42 REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE

    43 busybox             latest              769b9341d937        7 weeks ago         2.489 MB

    44 fedora              rawhide             0d20aec6529d        7 weeks ago         387 MB

    45 fedora              20                  58394af37342        7 weeks ago         385.5 MB

    46 fedora              heisenbug           58394af37342        7 weeks ago         385.5 MB

    47 fedora              latest              58394af37342        7 weeks ago         385.5 MB

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    49 .fi

    50 .RE

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    53 .SH See also

    54 .PP

    55 \fBdocker\-save(1)\fP to save an image(s) to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default).

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    58 .SH HISTORY

    59 .PP

    60 April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com)

    61 based on docker.com source material and internal work.

    62 June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit 

    63 \[la][email protected]\[ra]

    64 July 2015 update by Mary Anthony 

    65 \[la][email protected]\[ra]