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I've re-jigged the run man page so that each option's text begins with the cli's help text for that flag, and then ay subsequent lines in the man page are carried forward. Signed-off-by: Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au> Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au> (github: SvenDowideit) Upstream-commit: e01baa6be782320d3c0800697c882c2b919b202f Component: engine
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% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals
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% Docker Community
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% JUNE 2014
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# NAME
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docker-commit - Create a new image from a container's changes
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# SYNOPSIS
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**docker commit**
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[**-a**|**--author**[=*AUTHOR*]]
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[**-m**|**--message**[=*MESSAGE*]]
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[**-p**|**--pause**[=*true*]]
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CONTAINER [REPOSITORY[:TAG]]
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# DESCRIPTION
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Using an existing container's name or ID you can create a new image.
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# OPTIONS
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**-a**, **--author**=""
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Author (e.g., "John Hannibal Smith <hannibal@a-team.com>")
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**-m**, **--message**=""
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Commit message
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**-p**, **--pause**=*true*|*false*
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Pause container during commit. The default is *true*.
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# EXAMPLES
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## Creating a new image from an existing container
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An existing Fedora based container has had Apache installed while running
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in interactive mode with the bash shell. Apache is also running. To
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create a new image run docker ps to find the container's ID and then run:
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# docker commit -m="Added Apache to Fedora base image" \
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-a="A D Ministrator" 98bd7fc99854 fedora/fedora_httpd:20
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# HISTORY
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April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com)
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based on docker.com source material and in
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June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au>
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July 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au>
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