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    12  # history
    13  
    14      Usage: docker history [OPTIONS] IMAGE
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    16      Show the history of an image
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    18        -H, --human=true     Print sizes and dates in human readable format
    19        --no-trunc=false     Don't truncate output
    20        -q, --quiet=false    Only show numeric IDs
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    22  To see how the `docker:latest` image was built:
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    24      $ docker history docker
    25      IMAGE               CREATED             CREATED BY                                      SIZE                COMMENT
    26      3e23a5875458        8 days ago          /bin/sh -c #(nop) ENV LC_ALL=C.UTF-8            0 B
    27      8578938dd170        8 days ago          /bin/sh -c dpkg-reconfigure locales &&    loc   1.245 MB
    28      be51b77efb42        8 days ago          /bin/sh -c apt-get update && apt-get install    338.3 MB
    29      4b137612be55        6 weeks ago         /bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD jessie.tar.xz in /        121 MB
    30      750d58736b4b        6 weeks ago         /bin/sh -c #(nop) MAINTAINER Tianon Gravi <ad   0 B
    31      511136ea3c5a        9 months ago                                                        0 B                 Imported from -
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    33  To see how the `docker:apache` image was added to a container's base image:
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    35      $ docker history docker:scm
    36      IMAGE               CREATED             CREATED BY                                      SIZE                COMMENT
    37      2ac9d1098bf1        3 months ago        /bin/bash                                       241.4 MB            Added Apache to Fedora base image
    38      88b42ffd1f7c        5 months ago        /bin/sh -c #(nop) ADD file:1fd8d7f9f6557cafc7   373.7 MB
    39      c69cab00d6ef        5 months ago        /bin/sh -c #(nop) MAINTAINER Lokesh Mandvekar   0 B
    40      511136ea3c5a        19 months ago                                                       0 B                 Imported from -
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