github.com/Shopify/docker@v1.13.1/man/docker-load.1.md (about) 1 % DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals 2 % Docker Community 3 % JUNE 2014 4 # NAME 5 docker-load - Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN 6 7 # SYNOPSIS 8 **docker load** 9 [**--help**] 10 [**-i**|**--input**[=*INPUT*]] 11 [**-q**|**--quiet**] 12 13 # DESCRIPTION 14 15 Loads a tarred repository from a file or the standard input stream. 16 Restores both images and tags. Write image names or IDs imported it 17 standard output stream. 18 19 # OPTIONS 20 **--help** 21 Print usage statement 22 23 **-i**, **--input**="" 24 Read from a tar archive file, instead of STDIN. The tarball may be compressed with gzip, bzip, or xz. 25 26 **-q**, **--quiet** 27 Suppress the load progress bar but still outputs the imported images. 28 29 # EXAMPLES 30 31 $ docker images 32 REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE 33 busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB 34 $ docker load --input fedora.tar 35 # […] 36 Loaded image: fedora:rawhide 37 # […] 38 Loaded image: fedora:20 39 # […] 40 $ docker images 41 REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE 42 busybox latest 769b9341d937 7 weeks ago 2.489 MB 43 fedora rawhide 0d20aec6529d 7 weeks ago 387 MB 44 fedora 20 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB 45 fedora heisenbug 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB 46 fedora latest 58394af37342 7 weeks ago 385.5 MB 47 48 # See also 49 **docker-save(1)** to save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default). 50 51 # HISTORY 52 April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com) 53 based on docker.com source material and internal work. 54 June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au> 55 July 2015 update by Mary Anthony <mary@docker.com> 56 June 2016 update by Vincent Demeester <vincent@sbr.pm>