github.com/kobeld/docker@v1.12.0-rc1/docs/reference/commandline/load.md (about)

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