github.com/flavio/docker@v0.1.3-0.20170117145210-f63d1a6eec47/docs/reference/commandline/load.md (about)

     1  ---
     2  title: "load"
     3  description: "The load command description and usage"
     4  keywords: "stdin, tarred, repository"
     5  ---
     6  
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    15  
    16  # load
    17  
    18  ```markdown
    19  Usage:  docker load [OPTIONS]
    20  
    21  Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN
    22  
    23  Options:
    24        --help           Print usage
    25    -i, --input string   Read from tar archive file, instead of STDIN.
    26                         The tarball may be compressed with gzip, bzip, or xz
    27    -q, --quiet          Suppress the load output but still outputs the imported images
    28  ```
    29  
    30  Loads a tarred repository from a file or the standard input stream.
    31  Restores both images and tags.
    32  
    33      $ docker images
    34      REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
    35      $ docker load < busybox.tar.gz
    36      # […]
    37      Loaded image: busybox:latest
    38      $ docker images
    39      REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
    40      busybox             latest              769b9341d937        7 weeks ago         2.489 MB
    41      $ docker load --input fedora.tar
    42      # […]
    43      Loaded image: fedora:rawhide
    44      # […]
    45      Loaded image: fedora:20
    46      # […]
    47      $ docker images
    48      REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
    49      busybox             latest              769b9341d937        7 weeks ago         2.489 MB
    50      fedora              rawhide             0d20aec6529d        7 weeks ago         387 MB
    51      fedora              20                  58394af37342        7 weeks ago         385.5 MB
    52      fedora              heisenbug           58394af37342        7 weeks ago         385.5 MB
    53      fedora              latest              58394af37342        7 weeks ago         385.5 MB