github.com/brahmaroutu/docker@v1.2.1-0.20160809185609-eb28dde01f16/docs/reference/commandline/load.md (about)

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    11  # load
    12  
    13  ```markdown
    14  Usage:  docker load [OPTIONS]
    15  
    16  Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN
    17  
    18  Options:
    19        --help           Print usage
    20    -i, --input string   Read from tar archive file, instead of STDIN.
    21                         The tarball may be compressed with gzip, bzip, or xz
    22    -q, --quiet          Suppress the load output but still outputs the imported images
    23  ```
    24  
    25  Loads a tarred repository from a file or the standard input stream.
    26  Restores both images and tags.
    27  
    28      $ docker images
    29      REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
    30      $ docker load < busybox.tar.gz
    31      # […]
    32      Loaded image: busybox:latest
    33      $ docker images
    34      REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
    35      busybox             latest              769b9341d937        7 weeks ago         2.489 MB
    36      $ docker load --input fedora.tar
    37      # […]
    38      Loaded image: fedora:rawhide
    39      # […]
    40      Loaded image: fedora:20
    41      # […]
    42      $ docker images
    43      REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
    44      busybox             latest              769b9341d937        7 weeks ago         2.489 MB
    45      fedora              rawhide             0d20aec6529d        7 weeks ago         387 MB
    46      fedora              20                  58394af37342        7 weeks ago         385.5 MB
    47      fedora              heisenbug           58394af37342        7 weeks ago         385.5 MB
    48      fedora              latest              58394af37342        7 weeks ago         385.5 MB