github.com/AliyunContainerService/cli@v0.0.0-20181009023821-814ced4b30d0/docs/reference/commandline/load.md (about)

     1  ---
     2  title: "load"
     3  description: "The load command description and usage"
     4  keywords: "stdin, tarred, repository"
     5  ---
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    15  
    16  # load
    17  
    18  ```markdown
    19  Usage:  docker load [OPTIONS]
    20  
    21  Load an image or repository from a tar archive (even if compressed with gzip,
    22  bzip2, or xz) from a file or STDIN.
    23  
    24  Options:
    25        --help           Print usage
    26    -i, --input string   Read from tar archive file, instead of STDIN.
    27                         The tarball may be compressed with gzip, bzip, or xz
    28    -q, --quiet          Suppress the load output but still outputs the imported images
    29  ```
    30  ## Description
    31  
    32  Load an image or repository from a tar archive (even if compressed with gzip,
    33  bzip2, or xz) from a file or STDIN. It restores both images and tags.
    34  
    35  ## Examples
    36  
    37  ```bash
    38  $ docker image ls
    39  
    40  REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
    41  
    42  $ docker load < busybox.tar.gz
    43  
    44  Loaded image: busybox:latest
    45  $ docker images
    46  REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
    47  busybox             latest              769b9341d937        7 weeks ago         2.489 MB
    48  
    49  $ docker load --input fedora.tar
    50  
    51  Loaded image: fedora:rawhide
    52  
    53  Loaded image: fedora:20
    54  
    55  $ docker images
    56  
    57  REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
    58  busybox             latest              769b9341d937        7 weeks ago         2.489 MB
    59  fedora              rawhide             0d20aec6529d        7 weeks ago         387 MB
    60  fedora              20                  58394af37342        7 weeks ago         385.5 MB
    61  fedora              heisenbug           58394af37342        7 weeks ago         385.5 MB
    62  fedora              latest              58394af37342        7 weeks ago         385.5 MB
    63  ```